Outdated and/or broken kernel dependencies

[Stefan Foerster <cite+backports-users@incertum.net>]

Hello world,

it seems the meta packages for the latest 2.6 kernel images and headers are
outdated:

cite@nemea:~$ apt-cache depends linux-headers-2.6-amd64
linux-headers-2.6-amd64
  Depends: linux-headers-2.6.30-bpo.1-amd64
cite@nemea:~$ apt-cache policy linux-headers-2.6-amd64
linux-headers-2.6-amd64:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.6.26+17+lenny1
  Version table:
     2.6.30+20~bpo50+1 0
        200 http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/main Packages
     2.6.26+17+lenny1 0
        500 ftp://ftp.stratoserver.net stable/main Packages
cite@nemea:~$ apt-cache depends linux-image-2.6-amd64
linux-image-2.6-amd64
  Depends: linux-image-2.6.30-bpo.1-amd64
cite@nemea:~$ apt-cache policy linux-image-2.6-amd64
linux-image-2.6-amd64:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.6.26+17+lenny1
  Version table:
     2.6.30+20~bpo50+1 0
        200 http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/main Packages
     2.6.26+17+lenny1 0
        500 ftp://ftp.stratoserver.net stable/main Packages


Furthermore, the headers for 2.6.32-amd64 have broken dependencies:

cite@nemea:~$ aptitude -s install linux-headers-2.6.32-bpo.2-amd64 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information       
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done  
The following packages are BROKEN:
  linux-headers-2.6.32-bpo.2-amd64 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-headers-2.6.32-bpo.2-common{a} 
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 460kB/4293kB of archives. After unpacking 27.3MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  linux-headers-2.6.32-bpo.2-amd64: Depends: linux-kbuild-2.6.32 which is a virtual package.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Keep the following packages at their current version:
linux-headers-2.6.32-bpo.2-amd64 [Not Installed]

Score is -9881

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q
Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies.
Abort.
cite@nemea:~$ apt-cache policy linux-headers-2.6.32-bpo.2-amd64
linux-headers-2.6.32-bpo.2-amd64:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.6.32-8~bpo50+1
  Version table:
     2.6.32-8~bpo50+1 0
        200 http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/main Packages


Cheers
Stefan