Re: How to build-depend on linux-headers

[Jonas Meurer <jonas@freesources.org>]

Hey,

On 27/04/2009 Luca Niccoli wrote:
> in a package I'm preparing I need to build depend on linux headers,
> but if I just put "linux-headers" in debian/control lintian shrieks
> virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends
> The problem is that AFAICS all the real packages in question are
> either version-specific (linux-headers-2.6.29-1-all) or architecture
> specific (linux-headers-2.6-amd64).
> What should I do? Depend on all possible architecture specific
> packages, ORred after linux-headers? Or on just one of them, and when
> the buildd won't be able to satisfy the dependency it will pick a
> suitable version? But in this case, why bother putting a real package
> dependency if it can't be satisfied on most architectures?

I'm not absolutely sure about it, but linux-libc-dev might be the answer
to your questions.

greetings,
 jonas