Re: renaming linux-kernel source package
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 00:11:49 +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> 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.
>
Perhaps you could give a reason why this is the case?
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