Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy
Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> I think that /usr/src should the be domain of the local admin.
I agree.
> I don't think kernel-{header,source}-x.xx.deb should exist, really,
> because I don't think source code should be distributed as .deb files
> anyway. So I'm not unhappy about making a policy decision that leaves
> kernel-{header,source} with nowhere good to go.
We do need kernel headers in some kind of package, for compiling programs.
It wouldn't look good to release 2.0 with the requirement that you must
obtain kernel source and/or install it separately to have a working
development environment.
> Why does libc6 depend on kernel-header ?
It's libc6-dev that has that dependency.
Perhaps weakening the dependency to Suggests might be the best solution.
> What's new is that packages wanted even by people who think they own
> /usr/src might actually install there.
Yes, I think the policy needs to be updated to explicitly cover this point.
Martin.
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