building dkms source packages using mkdsc

[Mario Limonciello]

It's been on the backburner for me for a while.  Send patches to
mario_limonciello at dell.com and i'm happy to look at them.


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:04 AM, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hey Chris,
>
> Chris J Arges [2013-09-04 16:00 -0500]:
> > I examined the package that dkms mkdsc generates and I noticed a few
> things:
> > 1) debian/rules doesn't use newer DH stuff like "%: dh $@ --with dkms"
> > 2) debian/control's Standards-Version / debhelper versions are fairly
> old.
> >
> > Is there a reason for this, or is this a 'patches are welcome' sort of
> > thing?
>
> It's just "nobody has touched dkms for a while". Not sure how active
> upstream still is (Mario?), but I'd rather have these intrusive
> changes upstream than carrying huge patches in Ubuntu only (package in
> Debian also isn't very active).
>
> Martin
>
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>



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Mario Limonciello
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