I was only partly correct in post #5. The circumvention allowed module-
assistant to successfully build xtables-addons, so that was good news.
Unfortunately, when I rebooted my system there was another crash - this
time with xt-ACCOUNT.c. Following the advice in one of the many bug
reports on this subject, I also commented that line in mconfig (both
copies), but the m-a build failed again, saying it could not find
xtables and recommended I ran m-a -f get. That seemed to reinstall the
package, but it would not build properly... because of xt_RAWNAT again!

So I edited both copies of mconfig, successfully ran module-assistant,
rebooted to another crash. It happens every time I reboot.

When I have rebooted, after the inevitable crash, I can see:
/usr/src/modules/xtables-addons/mconfig still contains my comments.
/usr/src/xtables-addons-1.42/mconfig has lost my comments and has been restored 
to the distribution state.
/usr/src/ contains xtables-addons.tar.bz2 and 
xtables-addons-modules-3.5.0-34-lowlatency_1.42-2_i386.deb

dpkg --list xtables-addons-dkms and xtables-addons-common both show
status of "ii", so I do not understand why a reboot causes the module to
be rebuilt and fail.

I tried apt-get remove xtables-addons-dkms, then install, then edited
both mconfigs, but that just takes me round the loop again. It feels
like groundhog day.

Would life get better for me if I downloaded the source and built my own
debs, or would I just waste more time?

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