Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:37:24PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@compsoc.dur.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > In what situation would the linux-kernel-headers package be needed
> > seperate from libc?
>
> Ths issue is not whether it is needed separately from libc-dev, the
> issue is that it comes from a different upstream source and thus is
> best handled in a separate source package. This requires it to be
> in a different binary package too.
Precisely.
The original reason it was separated was because I wanted to maintain
a separate set of .patch files for the Debian-local changes to the
kernel headers. This way was most convenient. Also, most fixes to the
kernel headers do not require glibc to be rebuilt.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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