Dependency on linux-headers-generic-pae

[Andrey Bondarenko]

Binary package hint: dkms

In Ubuntu 10.10 dkms version 2.1.1.2-3ubuntu1.1 recommends only
following linux headers:

linux-headers-2.6-amd64 | linux-headers-generic | linux-headers

I'm using linux-image-generic-pae kernel because on NX feature,
and virtualbox-ose package which uses dkms to build vboxdrv.

If I install linux-headers-generic-pae manually, all is ok. But if I mark
package linux-headers-generic-pae as auto managed in aptitude
it is removed because no other packages depend on it. As a result
dkms fails to build vboxdrv module.

I suppose the issue can be avoided by adding linux-headers-generic-pae
as an alternative to dkms dependency.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

I'm not sure this is really necessary anymore. On 11.04:
supermario@mlimonciello ~/src/dell/dkms/dkms $ apt-cache showpkg linux-headers-2.6.38-8-generic-pae
Package: linux-headers-2.6.38-8-generic-pae
Versions:
2.6.38-8.42 (/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_natty_main_binary-i386_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
 Description Language:
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_natty_main_binary-i386_Packages
                  MD5: 64e1add2d1811f31661e051de95a6322

Reverse Depends:
  linux-headers-lbm-2.6.38-8-generic-pae,linux-headers-2.6.38-8-generic-pae
  linux-headers-generic-pae,linux-headers-2.6.38-8-generic-pae
Dependencies:
2.6.38-8.42 - coreutils (16 (null)) fileutils (2 4.0) linux-headers-2.6.38-8 (0 (null)) libc6 (2 2.11)
Provides:
2.6.38-8.42 - linux-headers-2.6 linux-headers
Reverse Provides:

You can see that the individual headers packages to Provides: linux-headers so they will be satisfied here. We don't want to be in the habit of having to include every variation of linux-headers in dependencies or recommends, which is why the virtual package is there.