Bug#715398: please add a bbswitch-source package

[Russ Allbery]

David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian at gmail.com> writes:

> Currently src:bbswitch builds only a bbswitch-dkms package for usage
> with dkms tools. It would be nice if you could add a bbswitch-source
> package for module-assistant so that users can build proper debian
> packages for the bbswitch module for the kernel they use.

I'm not the bbswitch maintainer, so this is something of an aside, but
I've been considering dropping the *-source packages from other packages I
maintain because DKMS seems to have all the same functionality.  (Build
for custom kernels, build Debian packages if you want, etc.)  Am I missing
things that DKMS is not capable of?

> (Bonus points if you use this then to build packages for the debian
> kernels so that at least for those the buildds can do the dirty compile
> work just like its done for the nvidia module.)

Yeah, I wish we had a better way of handling this.  It's very nice to have
those packages, but maintaining them is a pain.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>