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Re: Bug#380159: Bug#381776: em8300-source: postinst/postrm depmod -- update templates to use dh_installmodules instead



#include <hallo.h>
* Bernd Schubert [Mon, Aug 07 2006, 01:34:58AM]:
> Hi Nicolas,
> 
> > As far as I am concerned, whenever possible, I'd rather not depend (or
> > build-depend) on things that are not available in stable, since it makes
> > back-poting more complex. Is there a good reason to use

I disagree. Backporter should be skilled enough to use a recent
debhelper version. Unfortunately, even bp.o seems not to provide a
sufficient version.

> > dh_installmodules rather than copy the code snippet from
> > http://lists-archives.org/debian-devel/24684-kernel-modules-postinst-script
> >.html ?

I think you can go with that snippet... if you wish.

> Personally I have no real opinion about that. Using debhelper makes it easy to 
> fix bugs like this the future. On the other hand it really wasn't that easy 
> to get debhelper-5.0.37 to sarge. Its not available on backports.org and to 
> port it myself, I had to backport several other packages as well. 
> Again on the other hand, Etch seems to get released on time which is not so 
> far in the future.

Yep. I see no point in investing too much time in maintaining backwards
compatibility.

Eduard.


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