shipping post-install scripts (was: Bug#279648: kernel-source-2.6.9: no console on vga mode)

[Jens Schmalzing <j.s@lmu.de>]

Hi,

Klaus Maria Pfeiffer writes:

> why is this script not in the kernel-source package?

Because it's in the kernel source package (mind the missing dash), in
the kernel-image-<version>-i386 source package to be precise.

> is it a good idea to put this scripts into the kernel-source
> package?

Well, depends.  On the one hand, it is not a good idea to put this
particular script where it will automatically be used, because it's
pointless for non-i386 builds (who don't have vesafb at all),
non-Debian kernels (who don't have modular vesafb) and non-official
configs (who may or may not have modular vesafb).  On the other hand,
it is a good idea to keep official and self-compiled kernels in Debian
as similar as possible, and that means using kernel-package wherever
we can and documenting the additional quirks.

For example, the PowerPC kernel-image packages use a post-install
script that is also packaged as an example in the kernel-patch-powerpc
package.  Not an option for i386, of course.

> where should we discuss this? a bug report is imho not a good place. 

If you want to keep it out of the BTS, debian-kernel is the place to
go.  As the maintainer address for the kernel packages, it has been
getting copies of mail to this bug report already.

Regards, Jens.

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