Bug#454431: debian-policy: Policy for module sources needed

[Martin Zobel-Helas <zobel@ftbfs.de>]

Hi, 

On Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 12:06:34 +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
> 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

*seconded*

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[root@debian /root]# man real-life
No manual entry for real-life