Re: RFC: New uniform packaging scheme
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 05:20:06PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:04:33PM -0400, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> > Kernel packages are uniquely identified by their architecture,
> > subarchitecture and flavour. For most arches the kernel images are
> > built from the same source (upstream source with all-arch Debian
> > patches), using different configuration files corresponding to
> > different flavours. Subarch level is only required when specific
> > unmerged patches need to be applied to the common source to support
> > a particular class of hardware. As these patches potentially modify
> > the headers, each subarch has to have its own kernel-headers package.
>
> I think it's a very bad idea to have different source bases and if
> possible we should implement it in the packaging - that would encourage
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