kqemu-source does not install with module-assistant and a custom-built kernel

Binary package hint: kqemu-source

kqemu-source, when built with module-assistant, produces a binary package which depends on the kernel image package in question. However, with a custom kernel, that package may not exist:
bd@shion:~$ sudo m-a -t -v a-i kqemu
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Updating info about kqemu-source

Updated infos about 1 packages
Getting source for kernel version: 2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1
Kernel headers available in /lib/modules/2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1/source
apt-get install build-essential
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Building dependency tree
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build-essential is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-2.6.20-10-generic linux-headers-2.6.20-10
  linux-headers-2.6.17-11-generic gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
  linux-headers-2.6.17-11 libsidplay1 gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse
  libmpeg2-4
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
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 apt-get -y --force-yes install kqemu-source
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-2.6.20-10-generic linux-headers-2.6.20-10
  linux-headers-2.6.17-11-generic gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
  linux-headers-2.6.17-11 libsidplay1 gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse
  libmpeg2-4
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  kqemu-source
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe kqemu-source 1.3.0~pre11-4 [75.5kB]
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Extracting the package tarball, /usr/src/kqemu.tar.bz2, please wait...
 action tar --bzip2 -x -f /usr/src/kqemu.tar.bz2
 tar --bzip2 -x -f /usr/src/kqemu.tar.bz2
"/usr/share/modass/packages/default.sh" build KVERS=2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1 KSRC=/lib/modules/2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1/source KDREV=2.6.20-15.27 kdist_image
 debian/rules kdist_clean
dpatch deapply-all
rm -rf patch-stamp patch-stampT debian/patched
dh_testdir
#dh_testroot
# Cleaning package
/usr/bin/make clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu'
/usr/bin/make -C common clean
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu/common'
Makefile:19: ../config-host.mak: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `../config-host.mak'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu/common'
make[1]: *** [clean] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu'
make: [clean] Error 2 (ignored)
dh_clean
/usr/bin/make -f debian/rules clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu'
dpatch deapply-all
rm -rf patch-stamp patch-stampT debian/patched
dh_testdir
#dh_testroot
# Cleaning package
/usr/bin/make clean
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu'
/usr/bin/make -C common clean
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu/common'
Makefile:19: ../config-host.mak: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `../config-host.mak'. Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu/common'
make[2]: *** [clean] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu'
make[1]: [clean] Error 2 (ignored)
dh_clean
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu'
 debian/rules KVERS=2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1 KSRC=/lib/modules/2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1/source KDREV=2.6.20-15.27 kdist_image
/usr/bin/make -f debian/rules kdist_clean kdist_config binary-modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu'
dpatch deapply-all
rm -rf patch-stamp patch-stampT debian/patched
dh_testdir
#dh_testroot
# Cleaning package
/usr/bin/make clean
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu'
/usr/bin/make -C common clean
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu/common'
Makefile:19: ../config-host.mak: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `../config-host.mak'. Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu/common'
make[2]: *** [clean] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu'
make[1]: [clean] Error 2 (ignored)
dh_clean
/usr/bin/make -w -f debian/rules clean
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu'
dpatch deapply-all
rm -rf patch-stamp patch-stampT debian/patched
dh_testdir
#dh_testroot
# Cleaning package
/usr/bin/make clean
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu'
/usr/bin/make -C common clean
make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu/common'
Makefile:19: ../config-host.mak: No such file or directory
make[4]: *** No rule to make target `../config-host.mak'. Stop.
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu/common'
make[3]: *** [clean] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu'
make[2]: [clean] Error 2 (ignored)
dh_clean
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `kdist_config'.
for templ in ; do \
    cp $templ `echo $templ | sed -e 's/_KVERS_/2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1/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##/2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1/g ;s/#KVERS#/2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1/g ; s/_KVERS_/2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1/g ; s/##KDREV##/2.6.20-15.27/g ; s/#KDREV#/2.6.20-15.27/g ; s/_KDREV_/2.6.20-15.27/g ' < $templ > ${templ%.modules.in}; \
  done
dh_testroot
dh_clean -k
# Build the module
./configure --kernel-path=/lib/modules/2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1/source
Source path /usr/src/modules/kqemu
C compiler gcc
Host C compiler gcc
make make
host CPU x86_64

kernel sources /lib/modules/2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1/source
kbuild type 2.6
/usr/bin/make
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu'
make -C common all
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu/common'
gcc -Wall -O2 -Werror -g -D__KERNEL__ -I.. -o genoffsets genoffsets.c
./genoffsets > monitor_def.h
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -I. -I.. -D__ASSEMBLY__ -c -o x86_64/nexus_asm.o x86_64/nexus_asm.S
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -I. -I.. -D__ASSEMBLY__ -c -o x86_64/monitor_asm.o x86_64/monitor_asm.S
gcc -Wall -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -Werror -mno-red-zone -fno-stack-protector -fpic -D__KERNEL__ -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -I. -I.. -c -o monitor.o monitor.c
gcc -Wall -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -Werror -mno-red-zone -fno-stack-protector -fpic -D__KERNEL__ -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -I. -I.. -c -o monitor-utils.o monitor-utils.c
gcc -Wall -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -Werror -mno-red-zone -fno-stack-protector -fpic -D__KERNEL__ -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -I. -I.. -c -o interp.o interp.c
ld -T x86_64/monitor.ld -o monitor-image.out x86_64/nexus_asm.o x86_64/monitor_asm.o monitor.o monitor-utils.o interp.o
objcopy -O binary monitor-image.out monitor-image.bin
gcc -Wall -O2 -Werror -g -o genmon genmon.c
./genmon < monitor-image.bin > monitor-image.h
gcc -Wall -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -Werror -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -D__KERNEL__ -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -I. -I.. -c -o kernel.o kernel.c
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -I. -I.. -D__ASSEMBLY__ -c -o x86_64/kernel_asm.o x86_64/kernel_asm.S
ld -r -o ../kqemu-mod-x86_64.o kernel.o x86_64/kernel_asm.o
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu/common'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1/source M=`pwd` modules
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.20'
  CC [M] /usr/src/modules/kqemu/kqemu-linux.o
cp /usr/src/modules/kqemu/kqemu-mod-x86_64.o /usr/src/modules/kqemu/kqemu-mod.o
  LD [M] /usr/src/modules/kqemu/kqemu.o
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 1 modules
WARNING: could not find /usr/src/modules/kqemu/.kqemu-mod.o.cmd for /usr/src/modules/kqemu/kqemu-mod.o
  CC /usr/src/modules/kqemu/kqemu.mod.o
  LD [M] /usr/src/modules/kqemu/kqemu.ko
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.20'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu'
# Install the module
install -D -m 0644 kqemu.ko debian/kqemu-modules-2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1/lib/modules/2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1/misc/kqemu.ko
dh_installdocs
dh_installchangelogs Changelog
dh_compress
dh_fixperms
dh_installmodules
dh_installdeb
dh_gencontrol -- -v1.3.0~pre11-4+2.6.20-15.27
dh_md5sums
dh_builddeb --destdir=/usr/src
dpkg-deb: building package `kqemu-modules-2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1' in `/usr/src/kqemu-modules-2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1_1.3.0~pre11-4+2.6.20-15.27_amd64.deb'.
dh_clean -k
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu'
/usr/bin/make -f debian/rules kdist_clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu'
dpatch deapply-all
rm -rf patch-stamp patch-stampT debian/patched
dh_testdir
#dh_testroot
# Cleaning package
/usr/bin/make clean
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu'
make -C common clean
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu/common'
rm -f *.o *~ monitor-image.h genoffsets genmon monitor_def.h \
           monitor-image.bin monitor-image.out \
           i386/*.o x86_64/*.o
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu/common'
rm -f kqemu.ko *.o *~
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu'
dh_clean
/usr/bin/make -w -f debian/rules clean
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu'
dpatch deapply-all
rm -rf patch-stamp patch-stampT debian/patched
dh_testdir
#dh_testroot
# Cleaning package
/usr/bin/make clean
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu'
make -C common clean
make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu/common'
rm -f *.o *~ monitor-image.h genoffsets genmon monitor_def.h \
           monitor-image.bin monitor-image.out \
           i386/*.o x86_64/*.o
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu/common'
rm -f kqemu.ko *.o *~
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu'
dh_clean
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/kqemu'
dpkg -Ei /usr/src/kqemu-modules-2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1_1.3.0~pre11-4+2.6.20-15.27_amd64.deb
Selecting previously deselected package kqemu-modules-2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1.
(Reading database ... 205472 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kqemu-modules-2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1 (from .../kqemu-modules-2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1_1.3.0~pre11-4+2.6.20-15.27_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kqemu-modules-2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1:
 kqemu-modules-2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1 depends on linux-modules-2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1 | linux-image-2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1; however:
  Package linux-modules-2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1 is not installed.
  Package linux-image-2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1 is not installed.
 kqemu-modules-2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1 depends on kqemu-common; however:
  Package kqemu-common is not installed.
dpkg: error processing kqemu-modules-2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1 (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 kqemu-modules-2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1

I: Direct installation failed, trying to post-install the dependencies

apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-2.6.20-10-generic linux-headers-2.6.20-10
  linux-headers-2.6.17-11-generic gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly kqemu-common
  linux-headers-2.6.17-11 libsidplay1 gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse
  libmpeg2-4
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  kqemu-common
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  kqemu-modules-2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  kqemu-common
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
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(Reading database ... 205477 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing kqemu-modules-2.6.20.3-ubuntu1shion1 ...
Selecting previously deselected package kqemu-common.
(Reading database ... 205472 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kqemu-common (from .../kqemu-common_1.3.0~pre11-4_all.deb) ...
Setting up kqemu-common (1.3.0~pre11-4) ...