Bug#603066: linux-headers-2.6.39-rc5-amd64 depends on linux-kbuild-2.6.39

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 06:24:02PM +0400, Alexandra N. Kossovsky wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Packages linux-headers-2.6.39-* in experimental are useless, since they
> depend on linux-kbuild-2.6.39.
> 
> I do not use module-assistant, but I need kernel headers to build
> third-party modules.

I wonder what those could be? :-)

> If the only supported way to do it is to download
> linux-source-2.6.39, then, possibly, linux-headers-* should not be
> uploaded to experimental at all?
 
I suppose we could disable them when packaging release candidates.

However it is usually easy to build the linux-kbuild package, per
<http://wiki.debian.org/HowToRebuildAnOfficialDebianKernelPackage#How_to_build_linux-kbuild-2.6_yourself>.

Ben.

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