[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#302188: kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.27-2-686 has the symbols

[Thomas Hood]

On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 11:26 +0200, Rolf Leggewie wrote:
> I understand how to solve the situation at hand in my case.  
> What I am wondering about is how to deal with this bug (?) in general.  
> Should alsa-base conflict with pcmcia-modules-2.4.27-2-686 at least for 
> the current version?   Or should I file a bug report against 
> pcmcia-modules-2.4.27-2-686 to make them conflict with alsa-base until 
> they provide those symbols?  I do not think the situation should be left 
> as is but I also have trouble proposing the right fix.  What do you suggest?


You are right that something is amiss.  Either
pcmcia-modules-2.4.27-2-686 is at fault for not providing the required
symbols, or alsa-modules-2.4.27-2-686 is at fault for declaring:

    Suggests: kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.27-2-686 | pcmcia-modules-2.4.27-2-686

which implies that pcmcia-modules is as good as kernel-pcmcia-modules
for its purposes.  The same goes for -386, -k6, etc., of course.

I think that declaring a Conflict is too strong since some people may
want to install pcmcia-modules-2.4.27-2-686 and use non-PCMCIA drivers
from alsa-modules-2.4.27-2-686.
-- 
Thomas Hood <jdthood@aglu.demon.nl>