Gunther, I'm still trying to reproduce your bug, without any luck. Below you can see the build log in a clean sid chroot, with module-assistant. As you'll observe, the output has important differences with your log. Also, in the original bug report, you didn't specify the module-assistant version.. If that was submitted by reportbug, it should have included that info... Can you try with the latest module-assistant from sid?
# m-a a-i -f qc-usb . Updated infos about 1 packages Getting source for kernel version: 2.6.24-1-686 Kernel headers available in /lib/modules/2.6.24-1-686/build apt-get install build-essential Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done build-essential is already the newest version. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libcwidget0 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Done! download Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reinstallation of qc-usb-source is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libcwidget0 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Updating info about qc-usb-source Updated infos about 1 packages unpack Extracting the package tarball, /usr/src/qc-usb.tar.bz2, please wait... "/usr/share/modass/packages/default.sh" build KVERS=2.6.24-1-686 KSRC=/lib/modules/2.6.24-1-686/build KDREV=2.6.24-4 kdist_image for templ in ; do \ cp $templ `echo $templ | sed -e 's/_KVERS_/2.6.24-1-686/g'` ; \ done for templ in `ls debian/*.modules.in` ; do \ test -e ${templ%.modules.in}.backup || cp ${templ%.modules.in} ${templ%.modules.in}.backup 2>/dev/null || true; \ sed -e 's/##KVERS##/2.6.24-1-686/g ;s/#KVERS#/2.6.24-1-686/g ; s/_KVERS_/2.6.24-1-686/g ; s/##KDREV##/2.6.24-4/g ; s/#KDREV#/2.6.24-4/g ; s/_KDREV_/2.6.24-4/g ' < $templ > ${templ%.modules.in}; \ done dh_clean /usr/bin/make clean make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/qc-usb' rm -f *.[oas] .*.flags *.ko .*.cmd .*.d .*.tmp *.mod.c rm -rf .tmp_versions qcset make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/qc-usb' /usr/bin/make -f debian/rules kdist_clean kdist_config binary-modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/qc-usb' for templ in ; do \ cp $templ `echo $templ | sed -e 's/_KVERS_/2.6.24-1-686/g'` ; \ done for templ in `ls debian/*.modules.in` ; do \ test -e ${templ%.modules.in}.backup || cp ${templ%.modules.in} ${templ%.modules.in}.backup 2>/dev/null || true; \ sed -e 's/##KVERS##/2.6.24-1-686/g ;s/#KVERS#/2.6.24-1-686/g ; s/_KVERS_/2.6.24-1-686/g ; s/##KDREV##/2.6.24-4/g ; s/#KDREV#/2.6.24-4/g ; s/_KDREV_/2.6.24-4/g ' < $templ > ${templ%.modules.in}; \ done dh_clean /usr/bin/make clean make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/qc-usb' rm -f *.[oas] .*.flags *.ko .*.cmd .*.d .*.tmp *.mod.c rm -rf .tmp_versions qcset make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/qc-usb' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `kdist_config'. dh_testdir dh_testroot dh_clean -k /usr/bin/make KVER=2.6.24-1-686 KSRC=/lib/modules/2.6.24-1-686/build \ DESTDIR=/usr/src/modules/qc-usb/debian/qc-usb-modules-2.6.24-1-686/ install make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/qc-usb' /usr/bin/make -C /lib/modules/2.6.24-1-686/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/modules/qc-usb modules make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-1-686' CC [M] /usr/src/modules/qc-usb/qc-driver.o /usr/src/modules/qc-usb/qc-driver.c: In function 'qc_i2c_init': /usr/src/modules/qc-usb/qc-driver.c:827: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type /usr/src/modules/qc-usb/qc-driver.c: In function 'qc_isoc_start': /usr/src/modules/qc-usb/qc-driver.c:1869: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type CC [M] /usr/src/modules/qc-usb/qc-hdcs.o CC [M] /usr/src/modules/qc-usb/qc-pb0100.o CC [M] /usr/src/modules/qc-usb/qc-vv6410.o CC [M] /usr/src/modules/qc-usb/qc-formats.o CC [M] /usr/src/modules/qc-usb/qc-mjpeg.o CC [M] /usr/src/modules/qc-usb/qc-memory.o LD [M] /usr/src/modules/qc-usb/quickcam.o Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 1 modules CC /usr/src/modules/qc-usb/quickcam.mod.o LD [M] /usr/src/modules/qc-usb/quickcam.ko make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-1-686' install -d /usr/src/modules/qc-usb/debian/qc-usb-modules-2.6.24-1-686///lib/modules/2.6.24-1-686/drivers/media/video/ install -m 644 -c quickcam.ko /usr/src/modules/qc-usb/debian/qc-usb-modules-2.6.24-1-686///lib/modules/2.6.24-1-686/drivers/media/video/ make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/qc-usb' dh_installdocs dh_installchangelogs dh_compress dh_fixperms dh_installdeb dh_installmodules dh_gencontrol -- -v0.6.6-5+2.6.24-4 dh_md5sums dh_builddeb --destdir=/usr/src dpkg-deb: building package `qc-usb-modules-2.6.24-1-686' in `/usr/src/qc-usb-modules-2.6.24-1-686_0.6.6-5+2.6.24-4_i386.deb'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/qc-usb' /usr/bin/make -f debian/rules kdist_clean make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/qc-usb' for templ in ; do \ cp $templ `echo $templ | sed -e 's/_KVERS_/2.6.24-1-686/g'` ; \ done for templ in `ls debian/*.modules.in` ; do \ test -e ${templ%.modules.in}.backup || cp ${templ%.modules.in} ${templ%.modules.in}.backup 2>/dev/null || true; \ sed -e 's/##KVERS##/2.6.24-1-686/g ;s/#KVERS#/2.6.24-1-686/g ; s/_KVERS_/2.6.24-1-686/g ; s/##KDREV##/2.6.24-4/g ; s/#KDREV#/2.6.24-4/g ; s/_KDREV_/2.6.24-4/g ' < $templ > ${templ%.modules.in}; \ done dh_clean /usr/bin/make clean make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/qc-usb' rm -f *.[oas] .*.flags *.ko .*.cmd .*.d .*.tmp *.mod.c rm -rf .tmp_versions qcset make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/qc-usb' make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/qc-usb' dpkg -i /usr/src/qc-usb-modules-2.6.24-1-686_0.6.6-5+2.6.24-4_i386.deb (Reading database ... 30628 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace qc-usb-modules-2.6.24-1-686 0.6.6-5+2.6.24-4 (using .../qc-usb-modules-2.6.24-1-686_0.6.6-5+2.6.24-4_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement qc-usb-modules-2.6.24-1-686 ... Setting up qc-usb-modules-2.6.24-1-686 (0.6.6-5+2.6.24-4) ... -- Martín Ferrari