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Re: build depends on kernel-headers



Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org> wrote:
> I think the whole idea of putting the kernel version number in the name of the 
> headers package is pretty bogus.  It would probably be better to just have a 
> "kernel-headers" package which installed itself in /usr/src/kernel-headers; 
> then you could declare dependencies on "kernel-headers (>= 2.2.19)" or 
> whatever.

Having version numbers in the kernel-headers package name is a consequence
of having them in the kernel-image package name.  The point of having them
in the kernel-image package name should be pretty obvious...
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