I'm not sure this is really necessary anymore. On 11.04:
supermario@mlimonciello ~/src/dell/dkms/dkms $ apt-cache showpkg
linux-headers-2.6.38-8-generic-pae
Package: linux-headers-2.6.38-8-generic-pae
Versions:
2.6.38-8.42
(/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_natty_main_binary-i386_Packages)
(/var/lib/dpkg/status)
Description Language:
File:
/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_natty_main_binary-i386_Packages
MD5: 64e1add2d1811f31661e051de95a6322
Reverse Depends:
linux-headers-lbm-2.6.38-8-generic-pae,linux-headers-2.6.38-8-generic-pae
linux-headers-generic-pae,linux-headers-2.6.38-8-generic-pae
Dependencies:
2.6.38-8.42 - coreutils (16 (null)) fileutils (2 4.0) linux-headers-2.6.38-8 (0
(null)) libc6 (2 2.11)
Provides:
2.6.38-8.42 - linux-headers-2.6 linux-headers
Reverse Provides:
You can see that the individual headers packages to Provides: linux-headers so
they will be satisfied here. We don't want to be in the habit of having to
include every variation of linux-headers in dependencies or recommends, which
is why the virtual package is there.
** Changed in: dkms (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
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