Bug#349089: no way to find out ABI version from unversioned linux-headers package
Package: linux-headers-2.6.15
Severity: minor
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Hi,
I'm currently working on prebuilt kernel modules, and for that I need to
find out the ABI version I'm building against from the debian/rules
file.
I'm Build-Depending on linux-headers-2.6.15, which pulls in all the
flavour headers for the architecture for me, however there is no way I
could find out which ABI version they pull in, in case multiple are
installed (as there is no way to conflict with all versions not pulled
in by a build-dependency [which would be undesirable anyway]).
As the linux-headers-x.y.z package needs to know the ABI version as it
depends on versioned packages, it would probably be easy to leave some
file in /usr/src/linux-headers-x.y.z or another hint which ABI version
is current (and thus guaranteed to be installed completely).
Simon
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-amd64-k8
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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