Re: RFC: Thoughts on building modules
Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu> wrote:
> This is misleading. The kernel-image-*-arch packages are much simpler
> because they do not depend both on a kernel source package and on a
> module deb package. Also, note that this maximizes work for the
How does that make it more complex?
> issues. Finally, it means that I cannot release a module for a new
> arch without package-installation access to that arch. It's my
> understanding that source-only uploads only work if there is an
> existing binary package that depends on the source package being
> installed, which is not the case for new package source uploads.
Well, kernels/modules have traditionally required this kind of access.
There's no way around it I'm afraid.
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