retitle 402811 module-assistant versioning inconsistent with linux-modules-*-2.6 reassign 402811 module-assistant 0.10.11.0 severity 402811 critical tags 402811 = thanks Justification: renders packages unusable The linux-modules-*-2.6 packages build kernel modules with version numbers of the form kernelver-modulever (e.g. 2.6.18+1.3.0~pre9-2) while module-assistant builds kernel modules with version numbers of the form modulever-kernelver 1.3.0~pre9-3+2.6.18-6. This makes debian-generated kernel module versions override locally installed versions. It appears from the bug reports that linux-modules-extra-2.6 has the correct behavior, in the presence of a ~ in module version numbers. (See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=402811#41) Furthermore, it seems to me that modules generated using module-assistant should be one epoch above those generated from linux-modules-extra-2.6 so that if I used module-assistant to generate a patched version of a module, that patched version doesn't get overwritten on the next upload of linux-modules-extra-2.6. I did such a local patch just a couple days ago for gspca to add a device ID to the module, so this is a useful concern. That is to say: linux-modules-*-2.6 should use version number 2.6.18+1.3.0~pre9-2 and module-assistant should use versinon number 1:2.6.18+1.3.0~pre9-2 --Ken -- Ken (Chanoch) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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