[ovs-dev] [PATCH] debian: openvswitch-common ethtool should not be required

Ethan Jackson ethan at nicira.com
Tue Sep 28 19:00:25 UTC 2010


The ethtool package is only used to help ovs-bugtool create bug
reports and does not prevent the script from running if it's
missing. Making it a requirement for installation is a bit
draconian.
---
 debian/control |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 622daeb..0efcf92 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ Description: Source code for Open vSwitch datapath Linux module
 
 Package: openvswitch-common
 Architecture: any
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, openssl, ${misc:Depends}, python, ethtool
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, openssl, ${misc:Depends}, python
+Suggests: ethtool
 Description: Open vSwitch common components
  openvswitch-common provides components required by both openvswitch-switch
  and openvswitch-controller.
-- 
1.7.3





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