Re: Creating kernel-latest-2.X-arch packages

[Norbert Tretkowski <tretkowski@inittab.de>]

* Joshua Kwan wrote:
> Summarizing a small discussion from before we intend to move kernel
> metapackages (kernel-image-2.6-386, for example) into their own
> source package so that it is possible to perform security updates on
> older versions without having to remove the metapackages there, add
> an epoch, or something equally disgusting. We call these new source
> packages kernel-latest-2.X-arch (-> "kernel-latest-2.6-sparc",
> "kernel-latest-2.4-i386") and all they contain is blank
> metapackages.

I prepared this for alpha, with version 3, because I saw version 40
wære uploaded for sparc and 100 for i386.

But maybe it'd make more sense to give them the version of the kernel
which it depends on?

Norbert