Re: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.8 and pristine linux 2.6.8 kernel
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 12:16:04AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 01:13:08AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 04:02:32PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 02:17:11PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > > > The description of kernel-patch-debian-2.6.8 claims that they should
> > > > be applied to a pristine linux 2.6.8 kernel. Yet I get:
> > >
> > > That statement is wrong. We'll have to fix it.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Why kernel-patch-debian can not have that quality (of applied to
> > pristine linux kernel)? Doesn't it a service to the users and helps them
> > to avoid running diff by themselves? Being able to tell where one's
> > kernel differs from someone else kernel helps when discussing and
> > learning the kernel.
>
> Talk to the firmware-removal zealots.
>
Do you mean that distributing the diffs with lines like
-# a line that it was decided not to distribute
-# another line that shouldn't be distributed
-# yet another one
is similar to distributing lines that it was decided not to distribute?
If so, can't the debian-patch package have a shell script that rm the
entire files with the these sort of problems and then have the diff only
contain the lines that were approved?
I hope that this arrangements is acceptable by everyone while still
helping at least users who are mostly interested in the code that Debian
does distributes. Hopefully these are most of the users.
--
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then
you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I
have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two
ideas." -- George Bernard Shaw (sent by shaulk @ 013 . net . il)
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