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Re: 2.6.12 in volatile?



On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 04:09:29PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Horms (horms@debian.org) [050811 23:46]:
> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 07:56:00AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> > > > The latter, according to volatile policy (... must be autobuildable
> > > > from the same release...).
>  
> > Is that part of the policy intended preclude providing an update to
> > kernel-package (or any other tool) that might be needed? It would
> > be good to clarify that.
> 
> Technically, we consider sarge+sarge/security+sarge/volatile as the
> release we build volatile packages in. However, as build-depending on a
> newer version is _also_ a packaging change, there needs to be a really
> good reason for that (as for any packaging change).

Thanks for the clarification.

> > Another solution I thought of would be to bundle kernel-package inside
> > linux-2.6 (for volatile/sarge) somewhere. Though I am not sure
> > how much surgery would be required to relocate kernel-package.
> 
> Well, that's obviously worse.

Perhaps.

It turns out in this case that the change required is quite small.
So we could just carry that change inside the linux-2.6 package
for volatile, rather than include it in a build-depending update.
Though the feeling I got from Svenl, which I agree with, is that
the latter is prefered.

-- 
Horms



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