Re: Status of kernel patch packages

[Ola Lundqvist <ola@inguza.com>]

Hi Yann

Thanks for the reminder. Yes it is time to remove at least the openvz
kernel patch package.

Best regards,

// Ola

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 03:14:59PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote:
> Since April 2009, kernel-package has no use any more for the
> {kernel,linux}-patch-* packages (AFAIK the current recommended way of
> patching a kernel is using git).  My understanding was that those
> packages should then be simply removed from the archive.  However,
> there are still a couple of kernel patch packages in squeeze and sid,
> and some of them got recent updates.
> 
> So the question is, is it time to request removal of those packages,
> or is there any remaining reason not to do so that I missed ?
> 
> [CC'd maintainers of the relevant packages]
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
> Yann
> 
> 

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