[Pkg-mol-devel] something broken in the debian/control generation concept ? (Was: Bug#391626: Please include mol into linux-modules-extra before etch)

[Sven Luther]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 01:41:17AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> tags 391626 +patch
> 
> Hi
> 
> As the mol maintainer I would really appreciate it if you could include
> my patch before the etch release. The patch is already in the bug log
> since about a month.
> AFAICS a new upload of linux-modules-extra is needed anyway for 
> linux-image-2.6.18-2-*. 
> 
> Please contact me if you need additional information or assistance. If
> you are busy with other things I can also prepare an NMU.

I did give it a try, but i faced :

  $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc
  dpkg-buildpackage: source package is linux-modules-extra-2.6
  dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 2.6.18-2
  dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz at debian.org>
  dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture powerpc
  dpkg-buildpackage: source version without epoch 2.6.18-2
  dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: cannot read control file debian/control: No such
  file or directory
  dpkg-buildpackage: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting.
  dpkg-buildpackage: (Use -d flag to override.)
  sven at tael:~/debian/kernel/trunk/build/linux-modules-extra-2.6$ debian/rules
  debian/control
  debian/rules:5: /usr/src/linux-support-2.6.18-1/modules/rules.include: No
  such file or directory
  make: *** No rule to make target
  `/usr/src/linux-support-2.6.18-1/modules/rules.include'.  Stop.

Which seems to indicate that there is something broken in the
linux-modules-extra-2.6 concept, since you need to have the dependencies
satisfied (i suppose) when building the debian/control, while at the same time
you cannot run dpkg-buildpackage to get the missing dependencies without the
debian/control file.

Friendly,

Sven Luther