Bug#225671: linux-kernel-headers: please consider making target directory configurable on build time
Package: linux-kernel-headers
Version: 2.5.999-test7-bk-10
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
linux-kernel-headers places the headers in /usr/include, which is fine
for a sarge or sid system. On woody, however, this makes
linux-kernel-headers uninstallable if one doesn't want to update glibc
(which is usually exactly what you want to avoid when using
woody+backports).
Some packages need more recent kernel headers to build (for example,
devmapper). To help backporting these packages, it would be a good
idea to have an option to build a linux-kernel-headers package that
doesn't conflict with woody's libc6-dev.
This would be more easily possible if there were a debian/rules option
to set the target directory from /usr/include to /usr/include/foo.
Please consider adding that option to ease backporting efforts..
Affected files would be:
debian/linux-kernel-headers.install
debian/linux-kernel-headers.preinst
debian/rules
debian/generate-asm.sh
Greetings
Marc
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux kes 2.4.23-kes #1 Mon Dec 22 10:14:13 UTC 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
-- no debconf information
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