Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes:

> DKMS does build real Debian packages.  And that means that OOT module
> sources do not need to be packaged differently depending on where the
> modules will be built.

Oh, huh, I hadn't noticed that.  Thanks for the pointer!  I'll have to
play with that; I'd only previously seen the tarball distribution and
installation mechanism.

The work of providing both the -dkms and the traditional -source package
is fairly trivial and not much of a drain on the packager's time once the
original -source rules have been written.  I'm doing it right now for
multiple packages.  But writing the original -source package rules file is
arcane and very under-documented, so this is potentially a long-term
improvement.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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