Re: renaming linux-kernel source package

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

Andres Salomon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm going to suggest renaming our 2.6.12 source package from
> linux-kernel-2.6.12 to linux-kernel-2.6.  Thoughts?  Dann Frazier and I
> have discussed this on IRC a little bit, and come up w/ the following
> points..
> 
>   * Source: linux-kernel-2.6, Version: 2.6.12-1
>   * As long as each arch is in synch, there are no GPL issues with older
>     binary packages being in the archive w/out the source.
>   * Nicer for bugs; http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-kernel-2.6.html
>     gets us all bugs for 2.6.12+ kernels, versus having to look at
>     linux-kernel-2.6.12.html, linux-kernel-2.6.13.html, etc.
>   * Older kernels get removed; no need to ask for manual removal of
>     linux-kernel-2.6.12 after 2.6.13 becomes available for all archs. 
>     However, we lose the ability to have multiple 2.6's in a release,
>     which sounds like a win to me; we shouldn't be doing multiple 2.6
>     releases anymore anyways, the security team has made it clear they
>     don't want to support multiple kernels, and it would be extra pressure
>     for all archs to keep up.

This makes it unlikely to ever get working mips/mipsel kernels in the
single source package.


Thiemo