Re: Debian should not modify the kernels!
George Danchev wrote:
>Let me point out that Debian has always provided upstream (unmodified/
>pristine) kernel source by the means of kernel-source-x.y.z packages and
>kernel-patch-<whatever> ... and so on ... Now with kernel-source-2.4.22 the
>situation has been changed...
Nonsense. As a trivial counterexample, take a look at the
changelog.Debian from kernel-source-2.0.36.
>Not true ;-) So called by you unmodified has all architecture-specific code
>inside. Get a kernel from kernel.org or svn from bkbits.net and cd arch/
And then try to compile it on anything other than i386. For some
architectures, on some kernel versions, it'll work. Most of the time, it
won't.
>Now you have a real nightmare with kernel-source-2.4.22 (named to bring the
>upstream 2.4.22, but instead patched and that was documented of course, but
>that is not the Debian way of dealing with kernels) breaking bunch of usefull
>kernel-patch-<whatever>.
Historical precedent is against you. That's not to say that the current
situation is ideal, but statements like this don't help.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.devel@srcf.ucam.org
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