Bug#454431: debian-policy: Policy for module sources needed
Package: debian-policy
Severity: normal
I think we should have policy for module source packages that specifies
how such a package should look like. There are several ways to build a
kernel module from a source file and some (at least the inclusion in
linux-modules-extra/contrib/non-free) are not easily tryable by the
maintainer of the source package.
The current policy in linux-modules-* is:
A module source package works with l-m-e, or it doesn't.
So I gather it's the source maintainer's job to make sure it compiles
inside the framework. But there is no documentation available about
linux-modules-* at all.
The process might change again in the future which might make the
situation even more complex. Therefore I think there should be some
(sub) policy explaining what to do.
Michael
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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