nvidia-current shouldn't add conffile that configures 'modprobe'
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
In Debian/Ubuntu, it's possible to have a package installed with its precious configuration files, and it's possible to remove a packages' contents except for those configuration files so that it can be re-installed later and resume the same state. If a package is removed, the existence or not of conffiles should have no effect on the rest of the system.
But, nvidia.current provides a conffile for modprobe that disables another package's module, nouveau. The nvidia package is overreaching to disable another package's modules when there exists a package state where it does not provide the same facility.
At present, having a removed but unpurged nvidia-common package results in a buggy state.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: nvidia-current (not installed)
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 22 12:15:25 2013
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: nvidia-
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2010-09-09 (955 days ago)