building dkms source packages using mkdsc

[Martin Pitt]

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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