sl-modem-source multiverse package

[andrew zajac]

As it is, the sl-modem-source package does not work
out-of-the-box to build sl-modem-module debs.

In the file
/usr/src/modules/sl-modem/debian/control.modules.in

the line:
Depends: kernel-image-_KVERS_

should be changed to:

Depends: linux-image-_KVERS_

for obvious reasons.

This would make the building of this module easy using
module-assistant.

Although sl-modem users (a quite popular software
modem) need to manually install the sl-modem-daemon,
sl-modem-source and module-assistant packages by hand
(since they do not have an internet connection with an
out-of-the-box Hoary install), this change would make
it easy to build the module package

sudo module-assistant update
sudo module-assistant prepare
sudo module assistant build sl-modem


Maybe it would be feasable to include a prebuilt
sl-modem-module package into Hoary since this change
would make the lives of many AC97 codec modems
simpler.

I know it is rather late, but this would be a
multiverse package and would not affect users who do
not need it.

The sl-modem-module package can be installed with the
sl-modem-daemon with no other dependancies.

As it is now, users must download the sl-modem-source
which depends on module-assistant to install the
sl-modem-daemon. The sl-modem-daemon depends on either
the sl-modem-source or the sl-modem-modules package.



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