Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy
Stephen Zander <srz@mckesson.com> writes:
> Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org> writes:
> > I know, however it would allow people to much more easily install and
> > maintain their own kernel sources for these includes.
>
> Surely if they're clever enough for that, they're clever enough to
> override a Recommends (not a Suggests) heading. Maybe that would work,
> though I still don't like it.
Yes, that's the point. A Recommends heading would work just fine to allow
this flexibility. Unfortunately the kernel-headers-2.0.32 package is in the
Depends line. I don't like using --force except in exceptional circumstances,
so the current situation is not a proper solution.
Martin.
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