Joni-Pekka,

For those folk that saw this error when upgrading their system, but only
had BLCR's kernel modules installed due to a "recommends" from another
package, removal of the blcr-dkms package was (and still is) a viable
solution.   For those who need a *functional* BLCR, it was initially
reasonable to expect them hold back updates of their kernel - but too
much time has passed for that to be a good solution anymore.  While not
"fixes" in the sense of making BLCR work on the current kernels, these
were both well-intentioned and appropriate work-arounds when they were
posted.

If you had consulted the mailing list for the BLCR project, you would
know that support for kernels through 3.7.1 is currently in Beta
testing.  [See
https://hpcrdm.lbl.gov/pipermail/checkpoint/2013-January/000550.html for
the latest]

If you had followed the link at the top of this bug report to the
corresponding Debian bug (#638339), or had consulted
packages.debian.org, you would know that the blcr-0.8.5~b2 (beta) is
already in Debian Experimental.  This is the reason for the Bug Update
Watcher item that immediately precedes your first comment.   I
understand that Alan plans to upload the latest (0.8.5~b4) this weekend.

I understand your frustration at the limited expressiveness of Status,
and as the lead developer of BLCR I had also complained (in comment #96,
the last human-generated comment before yours) that dropping the blcr-
dkms from the distribution (to satisfy lib dependencies in other
packages w/o rebuilding them) was not a Fix.  HOWEVER things have
progressed since then and, as I understand it, the acceptance of the
BLCR beta into Debian Experimental completely justifies the current "Fix
Released" status.

So, if you are in need of a working BLCR your best course of action at
this time is NOT to post multiple angry messages to this bug report.
Instead, you should contribute to the testing of the Beta release - and
report your success or failure here, on the Debian bug system, or on the
BLCR mailing list.  Sufficient testing is the best way to help this
package progress out of Experimental.

-Paul

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Title:
  blcr kernel module failed to build with kernel 3.0 : configure: error:
  --with-linux argument '3.0-x' is neither a kernel version string nor a
  full path

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