Re: Variable in Depends: ??

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl>]

Previously Marvin Stodolsky wrote:
> Per below, I am Debianizing a modem driver package. In principle it
> would be preferable to specify the Depends: for header-sources by
> something like:
>    Depends: kernel-header-`uname -r`

Read the documentation someday :)

In debian/control use:

	Depends: kernel-header-${kernel:version}

And call dpkg-gencontrol like this:

	dpkg-gencontrol -isp -Vkernel:version=$(uname -r)

You can probably tell dh_gencontrol to pass the right options to
dpkg-gencontrol as well.

Wichert.

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