Hi Christoph, Am Mi, den 07.07.2004 schrieb Christoph Hellwig um 13:48: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:29:44PM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: > > The description from kernel-patch-debian and kernel-image does not > > list which patches are contained in the Debian diff. That way it's > > pretty hard to evaluate which benefits are already provided by using the > > debian kernel package compared to going vanilla (and patching in what > > you need apart from vanilla). > > Currently README.Debian in kernel-source has an incomplete list. I > talked to Jens about this and we can't see anything in Policy mandating > that at all, so we plan to remove that aswell. With the .dpatch > ification you can easily check in the source for yourself, all the > .dpatches have proper descriptions. well, installing a kernel first to see if i like its patches is not very compfortable. So i was actually referring to the description of "apt-cache show kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7 kernel-image-2.6.7-1-k7" which does not list anything at all. I see that maintaining a list is problematic, so maybe a pointer to the SVN/CVS URL would be helping. Just some place i can check the list *BEFORE* downloading some 30MB off the net (which i then remove after having read README.Debian). > > Moreover i think it'd make more sense making kernel-patch-debian a > > meta-pacakge depending on all diffs it contains. That way reverting one > > patch out of the Debian proposed patchset will be much easier. > > No way. We give you the kernel package, and all QA is for all the > package. If you want to build your own images your ofcourse free to > patch grab all patches, but please don't place the burden of taking care > of all your crazy ideas on us. It was meant as a means to debug. Like i have a problem and i want to find out which patch breaks (for vanilla kernel works fine), then removing a certain patch and trying might make sense. It was not meant for you to support Q&A for that, just a better way to build unsupported personal kernel-images or report bugs after proving more details. If that's not needed, ok fine. ;) -- Best regards, Kilian
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