Re: Bug#607368: Please decide how kernel ABI should be managed
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes:
> DKMS does build real Debian packages. And that means that OOT module
> sources do not need to be packaged differently depending on where the
> modules will be built.
Oh, huh, I hadn't noticed that. Thanks for the pointer! I'll have to
play with that; I'd only previously seen the tarball distribution and
installation mechanism.
The work of providing both the -dkms and the traditional -source package
is fairly trivial and not much of a drain on the packager's time once the
original -source rules have been written. I'm doing it right now for
multiple packages. But writing the original -source package rules file is
arcane and very under-documented, so this is potentially a long-term
improvement.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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