linux-meta-lts-quantal should provide a kernel sources package

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Hi,

Not only the sources are affected. Header packages should provide linux-headers. This is necessary to satisfy dependencies of dkms packages.

$ apt-cache show linux-headers-3.2.0-49 | grep Provides
Provides: linux-headers, linux-headers-3
$ apt-cache show linux-headers-3.5.0-34 | grep Provides
<nothing>

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Regards,
Marga

Which dkms package(s) still depend on linux-headers? We tried to scrub all of that for the last point release.

For an instance nvidia-experimental-304 on Precise:
$ apt-cache show nvidia-experimental-304 | egrep 'Version|Depends'
Version: 304.48-0ubuntu0.1
Depends: x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0), make, sed (>> 3.0), dkms, linux-libc-dev, libc6-dev, linux-headers-generic | linux-headers, patch, acpid, libc6 (>= 2.2.5), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libx11-6, libxext6, libxv1, libxvmc1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), xorg-video-abi-11 | xorg-video-abi-12 | xorg-video-abi-13, xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.10.99.901)

Adam, what should dkms packages instead depend on? They require after all some kind of linux-headers to be able to build a kernel module...

They shouldn't depend on kernel headers, because there's no way to get this right. You need to trust your installer to have installed "linux-generic" or "linux-ac100", etc, which will pull in (and keep up to date) the right headers packages.

Using Ubuntu-supplied installers does this for you already. A custom installer/preseed might not.

(And for people using the lts-backport kernels, you want "linux-generic-lts-raring" or "linux-generic-lts-quantal", again, installed by default from our installation media, when it uses those kernels)