[Pkg-dkms-maint] Bug#690747: ndiswrapper-dkms: breaks dkms on kernel upgrades

[Julian Andres Klode]

Control: reassign -1 dkms
Control: severity -1 important

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 09:07:39AM +0200, Jasmine Hassan wrote:
> Package: ndiswrapper-dkms
> Version: 1.57-1
> 
> During kernel upgrades:
> 
> Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d.
> run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms
> 3.4.4-vanillakernel-3.4 /boot/vmlinuz-3.4.4-vanillakernel-3.4
> dkms.conf: Error! No 'BUILT_MODULE_NAME' directive specified for record #0.
> Error! Bad conf file.
> File:
> does not represent a valid dkms.conf file.
> -----
> 
> Adding:
> BUILT_MODULE_NAME[0]="ndiswrapper"
> 
> To:
> /usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.57/dkms.conf
> 
> resolves that error on dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-whatever-amd64

According to the dkms manual page, this is not needed. So they broke
things.
> 
> Best,
> Jasmine

For reference to the dkms maintainers; this is ndiswrapper's dkms.conf:

	PACKAGE_NAME="ndiswrapper"
	PACKAGE_VERSION="@VERSION@"
	DEST_MODULE_LOCATION[0]="/updates"
	AUTOINSTALL="yes"


-- 
Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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