Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers
Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@bylands.dur.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 04:03:17PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 09:17:39PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:21:14AM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote:
>>>>> Since when does the package libc6-dev depend on linux-kernel-headers? Is
>>>>> this dependes really necessary?
>>>> There have always been some kernel headers in libc6-dev, they've just
>>>> been split out into a separate package now. Several of these headers
>>>> are referenced by headers provided by glibc which would break those
>>>> headers if linux-kernel-headers is not installed.
>>> I'd prefer the old way.
>> And can you give a substantive reason? Without one your message makes
>> no sense.
> The new method installs linux-kernel-headers;
The old method installed kernel-headers, too. Just not in a separate
package.
> these do not necessarily match the version of the kernel which the
> user has.
And they need not. /usr/include/linux should match the headers the
c-library was compiled against.
http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20000814_80.html#4
> For example, I am running 2.4.22 but the
> linux-kernel-headers package that aptitude wants me to install is
> 2.5.999-test7-bk-6.
> I don't know whether this package needs to match the kernel version or
> not, but if not I think the name is poorly chosen.
So your "substantive reason" is: "The name of the new package is
poorly chosen."? - I don't think so, it describes the contents rather
well, doesn't it?
cu andreas
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