Re: Inconsistent handling of sourceless packages in main

[Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>]

Hi Adrian,

On Sat, 21 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> Is e.g. kernel-source-2.6.8 2.6.8-15 in sarge really sufficient to
> satisfy the GPL requirements for kernel-image-2.6.8-sparc 2.6.8-6 in
> sarge built against kernel-source-2.6.8 2.6.8-11?

Yes it is. kernel-source package contains the information about all
(different) series of patches, which were used to build a particular 
minor version of kernel-image. See [0] for a detailed explanation of the 
system.

[0] http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianKernelTree

Best regards,

Jurij Smakov                                        jurij@wooyd.org
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