Re: Problem with packages version(on m68k architecture, but also on amd64 and maybe somewhere else)
Ondrej Riha dixit:
>linux-headers-2.6-* and linux-image-2.6-* and linux-doc-2.6-*
These packages no longer exist, they have been removed from unstable.
Debian-Ports mini-dak does not generally follow this sort¹ of removals
automatically, so they will eventually be cleaned up manually.
The packages are now called linux-headers-* and linux-image-*, for
example linux-image-m68k is the kernel you need to boot a current
Debian/m68k system. It has been like this in jessie/sid for quite
a long time already.
The second thing you’re seeing here is that Debian/m68k no longer
has six flavour-specific kernels but one kernel for all subarchi‐
tectures, so the -amiga etc. variants are all gone, replaced by
the -m68k variant. This is a side benefit of the move to initrd
which was necessary for yet separate reasons (size being the most
important one), and desirable to stay closer to the other Debian
architectures.
bye,
//mirabilos
① The other sort of removals (drop binary packages that are no
longer built from source packages when a new upload of any binary
packages from that source package happens), dpo mini-dak does
*too* eagerly: it doesn’t check if the old binary package is
still depended on before it gets removed. Case in point, libdb5.1.
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<igli> exceptions: a truly awful implementation of quite a nice idea.
<igli> just about the worst way you could do something like that, afaic.
<igli> it's like anti-design. <mirabilos> that too… may I quote you on that?
<igli> sure, tho i doubt anyone will listen ;)
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