Thanks Mathieu for your interest in this. If you use a patch similar to that in comment #2 then yes you could argue that is good enough to fix this (but it is much better to tell the user a reboot is needed too). However, it is not optimal. If you use modalises as in comment #13 then I think that needs changes in software- properties or yet more changes to the b43 installer package.
The problem is if people are experimenting, installing, removing then reinstalling the b43 installer package, they could be in the situation that the package is in the apt cache and can be installed without an internet connection. The download of the firmware will fail without an internet connection, but the user has no way of knowing this thanks to the fix in debian bug 781544 Now you could solve this by not deleting the firmware when the b43 -firmware-installer is removed, and only delete it when it is purged. That seems to make sense to me and I probably should of thought of it before. There is no point adding the modalises, without the other fixes, otherwise it is going to cause problems. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1490212 Title: "Modaliases" field missing from debian control file To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/b43-fwcutter/+bug/1490212/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
