On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 11:26:55PM +1000, Alexander Zangerl wrote:
> >
> >Why can't you add them to the kernel module's build-depends?  I recall the 
> >debian/control file was
> >shared and autogenerated or something, but nothing stops you from changing 
> >that.
> 
> the build-dependency *is* there (since incorporating your other suggestions),
> but it doesn't do any good: as the kernel building process runs 
> debian/rules directly, there's nobody to actually look at the build-depends
> in the control file.
> 
> even if somebody manually ran apt-get build-dep 
> tun-module-${kpkg:Kernel-Version}, apt-get wouldn't know where to look for 
> the build-dep info because 
> the archives don't know about this locally built tun-module-thingie...

Ah, I understand.

> dpkg-buildpackage -D/dpkg-checkbuilddeps would at least flag a problem.
> hmm, should I add that to the configure target of the module package?

Sounds like a good idea.

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