Re: purpose of kernel-tree packages

[Horms <horms@debian.org>]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:35:52AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> Thanks for the doc, Dann.
> 
> However, I think you will still agree with me that the control
> description for kernel-tree packages is largely false and
> misguiding. I propose the following instead:
> 
>   Description: Linux kernel source tree for building Debian kernel images
>    This meta package is used as a build dependency of Debian
>    kernel-image packages to prevent a version discrepancy between
>    the kernel-image and corresponding kernel-sources packages in the
>    fast-moving unstable archive. The package's dependency relations
>    are structured so that a kernel-image package's build
>    dependencies can always be satisfied, even if the kernel-source
>    package that had been used to compile the image has been
>    superseeded by a newer Debian revision since the last build.
>    .
>    The package provides a list of virtual packages, corresponding to
>    Debian revisions of a kernel-source package. The Debian
>    kernel-patch contains the information needed to roll back the
>    current kernel-source to any of the revisions identified by the
>    provided virtual packages. Therefore, the kernel-tree package
>    ensures the availability of the kernel source tree corresponding
>    to each of the virtual packages listed.
>    .
>    The package serves no purpose outside of the Debian build and
>    archive infrastructure.
> 
> Comments?

Sounds good to me, though I am slightly dubious about the last paragraph. 
But I am happy to put the above in the tree if there are no objections
from others.

If you would like to enhance any of the other descriptions please
send them to this list.

-- 
Horms