Bug#225671: linux-kernel-headers: please consider making target directory configurable on build time
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 01:24:01PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> 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.
Wouldn't it be much easier and less confusing to users to copy the
relevant headers into the packages that need them to build? This has the
added advantage of being what you're supposed to do anyway, but it
should be easy enough to do that in a backport ...
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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