Re: ITP: mkcramfs ... but how?
>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
Ben> Just pull the sources you need from the kernel tree and
Ben> create a tarball of it. More than likely just make it a
Ben> Debian native package (since there is no original upstream
Ben> tarball).
Why a native package?
Why not use the source extracted from the kernel tree as "pristine" source,
apply any Debian specific diffs to that, and use the normal packaging
mechanism?
I would argue that is still is pristine source, even though you have
to create the tar.gz archive manually.
--
Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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