[Pkg-mythtv-maintainers] Re: ivtv-modules

[Mark Purcell]

> I don't think so, because all the kernel related packages do generate
> their control rather than beeing handwritten, so, it's not possible to
> add package specific stuff without either injecting it manually for
> every upload, or, to add checks to gencontrol.py, which is very ugly too.

Daniel,

On a related note the versioning for the ivtv-modules seems to be
different depent on the way you build them.

For example from the conglomeration module package we have the following:

ivtv-modules 2.6.18+0.8.2-4+etch1

But if you build by hand using modules-assistant and ivtv-source you get

ivtv-modules 0.10.1-1+2.6.18.dfsg.1-12

Thus in one package the kernel version is coming first, in the second the
modules package are coming first, which leads to this situation:

ivtv-modules-2.6.18-4-686/etch upgradeable from 0.10.1-1+2.6.18.dfsg.1-12
to 2.6.18+0.8.2-4+etch1

Where the system thinks a downgrade is actually an upgrade :-(


I presume that the conglomeration module packages are all pre-defined this
way, so we should change the outcome of a modules-assistant build in our
ivtv-source pacakage?

Mark