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Re: Bug#588936: initramfs-tools: still does not work with kernel-package kernels



[ changed cc to d-kernel and not unrelated bug report ]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 06:51:12PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
> * maximilian attems <max@stro.at> [Tue Jul 13, 2010 at 06:20:33PM +0200]:
> > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:23:39PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> 
> > > there was a bug about initramfs not created for kernel-package kernels.
> 
> > > I am trying to build a live CD with a kernel-package kernel and the
> > > initramfs is still not created:
> 
> > first of all kernel-package is legacy, use make deb-pkg.
> 
> As long as make deb-pkg can't build neither header nor source
> packages I personally just can't switch to deb-pkg. So even though
> I'm not the original bugreporter I just want to mention that I don't
> want to see kernel-package called legacy.

I prefer to call things by their name.

The simple conclusion is that nobody really needs those things.
As they are easy to add in linux-2.6 and nobody proposed it.
source deb package!? simple git clone gets more data.
headers to built against? again same git clone settled it.


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