Note why we're not going to ship pre-build modules with Debian.

diff --git a/debian/README.modules b/debian/README.modules
index 985c1ddaef9c397e3a8f79874865aca94526bfed..63f2c353d80c9224ac9543becbd9b5b54246323a 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/README.modules
+++ b/debian/README.modules
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ Introduction
 
       apt-get install openafs-modules-2.4.27-2-686-smp
 
-  Pre-built modules are not provided with Debian, but many organizations
+  Pre-built modules are not provided with Debian (building and maintaining
+  them in Debian proper poses too many problems), but many organizations
   that use OpenAFS build their own and provide them locally.
 
   If this doesn't work, you will need to build your own modules.  There