Sorry for not answering on the bug, but I'm a bit overwhelmed by work right now, so I saw your question and then forgot to get back at it :/
Il giorno mar, 26/07/2011 alle 23.08 +0200, Michał Górny ha scritto: > Should it just use '~' and warn then? Or should it re-do the checks > in pkg_preinst(), this time making the checks fatal? Or maybe it > should > only perform them there? My personal preference is keeping them ~. The reason is that you might be merging them on a chroot for a system that runs a different kernel, or a series of different kernels... in general it seems sane to me not to stop any kind of build just because the kernel is not (yet) configured properly. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes http://blog.flameeyes.eu/