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Re: Bug#249978: kernel-package: Could we have kernel-image packages check for anything but build on install?



Hi,
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 20:44:09 +1000, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> said: 

> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
>> 
>> to make this kind of a change; but the current practice of shipping
>> the conflicting build file in the headers packages _without_
>> conflicting with the image packages must stop.

> But nobody is doing that.  For official kernel-image packages, the
> build symlink is not included.  For unofficial kernel-headers
> packages, the build symlink also doesn't exist.

	In that case, I wish I would have been kept in the loop about
 these changes in the packages.  kerel-package can't be expected to
 support modified header and image packages that it did not know
 about -- and I am not sure I like this divergence between official
 and user built packages; this is a slippery slope down which lies
 madness. 

-- 
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a
prig. George Santayana
Manoj Srivastava   <srivasta@debian.org>  <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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