[PATCH 0/1] [Intrepid SRU, Jaunty] lp300803 -- export all of the kernel userspace headers

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Fri Dec 5 18:51:07 UTC 2008


Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> We have a request in bug #300803[1] to include the video/uvesafb.h header
> files in our linux-libc-dev package.  It seems that our package is meant
> to contain all of the kernel userspace header files, which are generated
> from the main header files.  However when we build our packages we only
> include the asm asm-common and linux headers; which used to be the only
> contents.  Since new ones have been added, and we have not tracked them in
> this package.  I have had a look at the Debian equivalent package which
> does include all of the added headers.
> 
> Following this email is a patch to sort this out which changes the
> packaging to include all headers as produced by the install_headers
> target such that we track any further changes without intervention.
> It also removes some build cruft which makes its way into the install
> directories (an upstream bug).
> 
> This should probabally be applied to Intrepid as well as obviously being
> targetted at Jaunty.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> -apw
> 
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/300803
> 
> Andy Whitcroft (1):
>   UBUNTU: synchronise our linux-libc-dev with the kernel userspace
>     headers
> 
>  debian/rules.d/2-binary-arch.mk |    8 ++++----
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> 

ACK for both Intrepid and Jaunty.

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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com




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