Some references to discussions on this topic in Ubuntu:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dkms/+bug/1915051
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2021-February/116985.html

On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 15:17:02 -0300 Marcelo Henrique Cerri 
<marcelo.ce...@canonical.com> wrote:
> Package: dkms
> Version: 2.8.4-1
>
> Recently we noticed in Ubuntu that some of the dkms packages were
> ignored by dkms-autopkgtest. The reason for that is that while
> autodep8 selects packages with names ending with "-dkms" and also
> packages that depend on dkms to be tested, dkms-autopkgtest only
> tests packages ending with "-dkms".
>
> That resulted on some of our DKMS packages, such as
> bcmwl-kernel-source, not being tested. I'm not sure if Debian has DKMS
> in this situation (where their names do not end with -dkms), but I
> would like to report that in case that's a real problem for Debian
> too.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Marcelo
>


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Regards,
Marcelo

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