Re: [wli@holomorphy.com: Re: NMU: kernel]

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> writes:

> * Jens Schmalzing (j.s@lmu.de) [040525 20:40]:
>> Andreas Barth writes:
>
>> > And the security team has already requested to reduce the number of
>> > source packages drastically.  So, I'm on the side of the security
>> > team, i.e. to go to as less source packages as possible.
>  
>> I'm all for it.  Let's put everything into one big source package,
>> then whenever we change anything it's a simple matter of running
>> 
>>  apt-get --build source debian
>> 
>> But seriously.  Didn't the security team ask to reduce the number of
>> kernel-source binary packages, rather than source packages?
>
> As I understood the security team: They want to reduce the number of
> packages that provide kernel source, because they create more work,
> see http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/04/msg06282.html .
> But - I'm not the authoritative interpreter of the security team.

There should be exactly one kernel-source package. And on top of that
kernel-patch packages per arch.

(ok 3 because of 2.2, 2.4 and 2.6)

MfG
        Goswin