Bug#258043: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7, kernel-image-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:48:43PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

Maybe we should simply copy over the 00list-* somewhere in the package
documentation ?

Adding it to the description seems overkill to me though.

Friendly,

Sven Luther