Re: Bug#269648: kernel-kbuild-2.6-2: Build-depends on kernel-source-2.6.5
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 04:21:15PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote:
>
> To the rest of the team (plus Herbert, CCed:)
> It seems, though, that we don't actually bother to Depend on this
> package for any of our headers packages. Is it really necessary to have?
> And why not ship it in the kernel-source package and have it provide a
> kernel-kbuild-2.6 metapackage? That seems cleaner + transparent to me.
It was depended on by the kernel-headers packages. Is this no longer
the case?
I did it that way to avoid the main kernel packages having a dependency
on glibc.
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