Bug#1063034: nvidia-kernel-dkms: should depend on kernel headers

[Andreas Beckmann]

Control: tag -1 wontfix
Control: severity -1 wishlist

On 04/02/2024 17.44, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> Package: nvidia-kernel-dkms
> Version: 525.147.05-5
> Severity: serious
> 
> This module did not build on my machine.  I tracked down the cause to
> the absence of the relevant linux-headers package, which is required
> to build the module.  This package should depend on
> linux-headers-generic to ensure that the appropriate
> linux-headers-<arch> package is installed.

If at all, this dependency is in the realm of dkms and src:linux and we 
recently dropped the header dependency from dkms for the ongoing 
restructuring of src:linux. And the previous dependency in dkms 
frequently pulled in the wrong headers...

The required behavior (headers matching the running kernel (ideally 
metapackages for both)) is not expressable with package relationships.


Andreas