[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#597290: Bug#597290: depend on linux-headers-$kvers

Patrick Winnertz winnie at debian.org
Fri Feb 11 13:55:36 UTC 2011


On Friday 11 February 2011 14:39:04 you wrote:
> > what should work on every arch is:
> >   apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.32
> 
> No, this will only work for user that use a Debian provided kernel. It has
> been a long standing tradition to not force people into using the kernels
> we provide.
Jepp, this is one limitation. That's why I've not done anything but writing 
this here - as this could possibly annoy users using custom kernels. The 
solution could be adding it to Suggests  as this would do no harm if the 
users are using a own kernel.

Greetings
Winnie

> 
> Michael
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