Package: linux-kernel-headers Version: 2.5.999-test7-bk-10 Severity: wishlist
Hi, linux-kernel-headers places the headers in /usr/include, which is fine for a sarge or sid system. On woody, however, this makes linux-kernel-headers uninstallable if one doesn't want to update glibc (which is usually exactly what you want to avoid when using woody+backports). Some packages need more recent kernel headers to build (for example, devmapper). To help backporting these packages, it would be a good idea to have an option to build a linux-kernel-headers package that doesn't conflict with woody's libc6-dev. This would be more easily possible if there were a debian/rules option to set the target directory from /usr/include to /usr/include/foo. Please consider adding that option to ease backporting efforts.. Affected files would be: debian/linux-kernel-headers.install debian/linux-kernel-headers.preinst debian/rules debian/generate-asm.sh Greetings Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux kes 2.4.23-kes #1 Mon Dec 22 10:14:13 UTC 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- no debconf information