Re: [wli@holomorphy.com: Re: NMU: kernel]
Hi,
first and foremost, this discussion belongs on debian-kernel. Please
take if off debian-devel right here and now.
Christoph Hellwig writes:
> As William mentioned no one wants to take over any packages.
His first message sounded quite different. I'm glad and thankful he
made his intentions clearer now.
> What I mentioned is that the separate packages must die,
As far as I understand the recent discussion, the problem is *not* the
architecture-specific kernel-patch packages, but rather the huge
number of kernel-source packages. IMHO, this has to be dealt with by
removing older kernel-image packages as soon as a newer release is
available and sufficiently well tested, and removing older
kernel-source packages as soon as no more kernel-image packages depend
on them for building.
> and with that I mean the existing maintainers should cooperate.
Indeed. But cooperation already exists. So far, it meant that
Herbert took the upstream source, prepared a kernel-source package,
and put it up on people.d.o for the other maintainers to download and
prepare their arch-specific kernel-image packages. Very efficient. I
don't think we could come even close to this if we had one source
package for all kernel-image packages.
Regards, Jens.
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