Bug#1064976: linux-headers-6.6.13+bpo-amd64 incorrectly depends on the corresponding linux-image-amd64 package
On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 09:25:40PM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> Why do dkms modules need the image installed to be built? At the very
> least they didn't use to, the headers were enough last time I had to
> deal with that stuff for the nvidia drivers
dkms is used to build modules for the kernel that is just being
installed. To do that it needs also the headers in matching versions.
As the image can't depend on the headers, some other way was needed.
Bastian
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