On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 10:38:54PM +0200, Michael Walle wrote:
> the official kernel modules do not provide a meta package. Eg. the
> unionfs-modules-{2.6.18-5|2.6}-686 should provide unionfs-modules. Without
> that meta package it is hardly possible to make a package dependency on that
> module.
> At the moment you have to list all the architectures with its flavors as
> dependencies.
> Eg:
> Depends: unionfs-modules
> instead of
> Depends: unionfs-modules-2.6-468 | unionfs-modules-2.6-686 ...
You shouldn't be setting Package dependencies on kernel interfaces anyway,
because users can and do install kernels (and kernel modules) without using
the Debian packages, and because a dependency on a kernel interface doesn't
guarantee that the interface in question is available at package runtime.
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