Bug#235068: modconf: FTBFS: Cannot find unpacked kernel source

[Daniel Schepler <schepler@math.berkeley.edu>]

Package: modconf
Version: 0.2.45
Severity: serious

>From my pbuilder build log:

...
 -> Considering  kernel-source
   -> Trying kernel-source
       -> Cannot install kernel-source; apt errors follow:
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Package kernel-source is a virtual package provided by:
  kernel-source-2.6.2 2.6.2-2
  kernel-source-2.6.0-test9 2.6.0-test9-1
  kernel-source-2.6.0-test11 2.6.0-test11-1
  kernel-source-2.6.0 2.6.0-2
  kernel-source-2.4.24 2.4.24-3
  kernel-source-2.4.23 2.4.23-1
  kernel-source-2.4.22 2.4.22-5
  kernel-source-2.4.21 2.4.21-6
  kernel-source-2.4.20 2.4.20-13
  kernel-source-2.4.19 2.4.19-11
  kernel-source-2.2.25 2.2.25-2
You should explicitly select one to install.
E: Package kernel-source has no installation candidate
     -> Considering kernel-source-2.2.25 to satisfy the dependency 
 -> Considering  perl-base
   -> Trying perl-base
 -> Installing  pcmcia-source kernel-source-2.2.25 perl-base
...
zcat ./Module-HOWTO.gz | perl mkdescr.pl >> descr
Description for NCR5380 is too long !!!
Description for 3c59x is too long !!!
Description for teles is too long !!!
gzip -9f descr
mkdir -p build/pcmcia-src || true
zcat /usr/src/pcmcia-cs.tar.gz | tar -x -C build/pcmcia-src
debian/mkkerneldesc.pl > build/kerneldsc
Cannot find kernel source. at debian/mkkerneldesc.pl line 20.
make[1]: *** [build/kerneldsc] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/modconf-0.2.45'
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2

I'd suggest using a more specific kernel-source Build-Depends like
kernel-source-2.4 or kernel-source-2.4.24.  Also, the kernel-source
packages only include the tar.bz2 files, while a look at
debian/mkkerneldesc.pl indicates it expects to find unpacked trees.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.2
Locale: LANG=en, LC_CTYPE=en (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)

Versions of packages modconf depends on:
ii  modutils                      2.4.26-1   Linux module utilities
ii  whiptail [whiptail-provider]  0.51.4-23  Displays user-friendly dialog boxe

-- no debconf information


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