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Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy



On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 11:54:14AM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote:
> Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org> writes:
> > Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> > > Why does libc6 depend on kernel-header ?
> > 
> > It's libc6-dev that has that dependency.
> > Perhaps weakening the dependency to Suggests might be the best solution.
> 
> No, you can't.  Their are multiple header files that will be flat *broken*
> without a /usr/include/{linux,asm}.

So the required kernel-headers package installs the headers
into /usr/include/{linux,asm}? I thought that they always installed
the headers in /usr/src/kernel-headers-x.x.x. Unless the dreaded
symlinks from /usr/include are back?


hamish
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