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Re: Depending on kernel >= 2.6



On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:15:09PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 10:34:16 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> [...]
> > 
> > - How can I mark a package to depend on having kernel 2.6 or higher?
> >   Even more, how can I make it build-depend on it? (If I am not
> >   mistaken, I will only need a kernel 2.6.x installed in order to
> >   build, even though the system can be running 2.4.x)
> 
> Build-dep on linux-kernel-headers.  This package contains 2.6 kernel
> headers for glibc to use, and contains epoll stuff.

linux-kernel-headers is pseudo-build-essential by virtue of being a
dependency of libc6-dev. Do not include unnecessary build-dependencies
on it. Why do people keep thinking they should be messing with this
package?

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