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Re: Debian non-x86 kernel arches



On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 10:00:25PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> The real problem isn't the unified source tree, but how to create
> kernels from it. A single debian source package for all architectures
> means there is no way to keep an older version for one of them. So we
> lose the flexibility to skip known bad versions for one architecture.

Umm, I don't thing known bad version for architecture makes any sense.
There's known bad changes and we can back changes out if nessecary.

> We also lose the flexibility to make an arch-specific update without
> forcing everyone to upgrade their kernels for nothing.

Handle them the same as everywhere?  Urgend per-arch changes become
NMU, if anything interesting for the others happened just make it a
normal release.



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