Re: Linux kernel and packages providing kernel-source
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 09:55:05PM -0400, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >The Linux kernel source packages are all providing a virtual package
> >called kernel-source, so that other packages such as kernel patches can
> >depend on them. The freebsd kernel (kfreebsd5-source) was recently
> >included in Debian (mainly for the GNU/kFreeBSd port) and also provides
> >kernel-source.
> >
> >This seems to confuse the users (what I understand) as we received a bug
> >telling that aptitude proposes to install kfreebsd5-source when installing
> >a kernel-patch.
> >
> >That's why we've deciced to provide the freebsd-kernel-source virtual
> >package instead of kernel-source.
> >
> >I think it would be nice that the Linux kernel-source packages follow this
> >policy, and thus provide linux-kernel-source. I don't say all package
> >should be reuploaded, but maybe in a first time, the newest uploads could
> >provide both kernel-source and linux-kernel-source, and the kernel patches
> >depends on kernel-source | linux-kernel-source. Then in a second time it
> >would be possible to remove references to kernel-source.
> >
> >I would like to have your comments on that.
> >
> >Bye,
> >Aurelien
>
> Hi Aurelien,
>
> The kernel team is currently planning a transition to a different naming
> and packaging scheme. Anticipating the inclusion of freebsd and hurd
> kernels into the distribution we have pretty much agreed that future
> kernel packages are going to be called linux-source, linux-headers,
> linux-image and so on. It would be nice if you could adopt the same naming
> scheme for freebsd packages (freebsd-source, freebsd-image, etc). It will
> then be consistent everywhere and will allow to avoid the namespace
> clashes.
Notice that i believe the source package should be linux-kernel, and not
linux-source. Would make more sense that way.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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