Comment 5 for bug 2008086

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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote :

@racb

Please do not edit bug description without consultation.

> * There likely exist users who use their own kernel builds. They may not match ours. If they have automation that just installs "wireguard" and that works today, this change would break that automation.

That assessment is incorrect. If self-built kernel doesn't provide wireguard.ko, no dependencies will create it (i.e. there is no dkms package that would compile wireguard.ko). Instead, currently a useless copy of ubuntu kernel will be demanded to be installed to satisfy the virtual provides. Or the userspace package will not be installed at all. Meaning "just installing `wireguard` on a kernel that chose not to copile wireguard.ko, does not result in a working wireguard today with or without this change.

I am removing your addition, which is factually incorrect.