Bug#343521: zaptel module compilation

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 01:43:13AM +0100, Kilian Krause wrote:
> Hi Kernel team,
> 
> I'm trying to resolve #343521 and I found that the linux-headers ship
> with a file .extraversion instead of providing EXTRAVERSION in the
> according Makefile. 

This is also the case with older kernel-headers packages. And the same
zaptel-source package seems to build nicely here on Sarge with all of
Sarge's kernel-headers packages.

The main Makefile is part of the main linux-headers package and is
shared by all packages of the same version

> 
> Now, my question is which part of the chain should be fixed accordingly.
> Right now zaptel-source uses KVERS as it's being provided by
> module-assistant. Module-assistant itself gathers its knowledge from the
> kernel Makefile. Thus, for e.g. a linux-2.6.14-2-686-smp the KVERS is
> linux-2.6.14 as correctly found in the bug report. So, could please
> maybe someone point me to whether sourcing the .extraversion is the sane
> approach or where I am to redirect this?
> 
> Thanks for your help.

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