Re: Bug#268611: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.8: please provide patch to pristine kernel as before.

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>]

Ernest ter Kuile wrote:
> I still only find these packages
> - kernel-patch-debian package: to be applied to kernel-source...orig
> _only_ - kernel-source-...orig... package: a pristine kernel with an
> unknown patch. - kernel-source-... package: a pristine kernel with the
> kernel-patch-debian patch, and the unknown patch.
> 
> None of these relate to a pristine kernel. Beside, as the second and third
> packages contain the full (many MBytes) kernel with only slight
> differences, I would see one or the other as very redundant indeed.

I believe that the "unknown patch" is supposed to be the result of running
the "prune-non-free" script on the pristine kernel source (thus removing
non-free source which Debian should not include even in the source upload). 
And I believe the prune-non-free script should just be a list of 'rm's.

If anything more complicated is going on, it is probably a mistake or a bad
idea.  :-)

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