Bug 26671 - Kernel development packages should depend on the kernel itself
Summary: Kernel development packages should depend on the kernel itself
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: 7
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal enhancement
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel and Drivers maintainers
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Reported: 2020-05-22 23:49 CEST by Eduardo Mestre
Modified: 2020-05-23 21:42 CEST (History)
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Source RPM: kernel-VERSION-5.mga7.src.rpm
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Description Eduardo Mestre 2020-05-22 23:49:35 CEST 
Description of problem:

The kernel-desktop-devel-$VERSION.mga7-1-1.mga7 package should depend on the kernel-desktop-$VERSION.mga7-1-1.mga7 package

The same would apply to the desktop, laptop or server versions of the kernel.

So by uninstalling a kernel version you would also uninstall its relative devel package

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Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2020-05-23 21:38:36 CEST 
Thank you for the suggestion.

Assigning to the kernel team.

Assignee: bugsquad => kernel

Comment 2 Thomas Backlund 2020-05-23 21:42:55 CEST 
No.
This is by design.

We allow the devel packages to be installed separately so kmods can be prebuilt without having to install the kernels.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX
CC: (none) => tmb
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