Bug#1030595: dkms autoinstall fails if headers are not available but a module could be built

[Paul Gevers]

Hi Andreas,

[Release Team member question]

On Mon, 6 Feb 2023 13:14:01 +0100 Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org> wrote:

This is actually a regression from bullseye:


on bullseye) emit a warning about the missing headers and exit 0
on bookworm) emit a warning about the missing headers and exit 11

If foobar-dkms is installed and linux-image-foo, but not linux-headers-foo gets installed, dkms will making the linux-image-foo installation fail in bookworm. This is probably the same issue in all the similar bug reports that were reassigned against dkms.

I'm trying to understand this bug and what it means for the bookworm release. How bad do you judge this issue to be? Is there any solution in sight?

Paul

Shouldn't any foobar-dkms (or dkms helpers) depend on linux-headers? Or doesn't that work the way linux-headers-* are setup?

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