building dkms source packages using mkdsc

Chris J Arges chris.j.arges at canonical.com
Wed Sep 4 21:00:46 UTC 2013


Hi. I'm trying to build a debian source package that uses DKMS to build
and install a kernel module.

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?

I think it would be awesome to make this a bit easier to generate a
proper dkms source package.

Thanks,
--chris j arges



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