[Pkg-dkms-maint] Bug#554843: bullding pure binary deb packages for modules which do not depend on dkms

[Anthony L. Awtrey]

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Well, three years have come and gone, and the relentless, aggravating
march to DKMS continues. The latest victim in the apparent effort to
move Debian out of production environments is open-vm-tools, which
recently dropped support for m-a.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659735

Daniel Baumann, maintainer of open-vm-source states:
> m-a is not really maintained and deprecated too, so no, doesn't
> make sense to add it back, sorry.

I've searched for discussions on mailing lists or comments on wiki
pages where the DKMS design decisions are being made... can't find
anything. Is no one driving this bus?

I will obviously solve this problem for myself internally, but the
fact that I have to seems to mean that no one really cares about
production security anymore. There is no way in hell I'd deploy a box
to the cloud with compilers. Apparently I'm alone in this.

Whatever. I give up.

Tony
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Anthony L. Awtrey

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