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Re: pending linux-2.6 changes



On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 08:28:44PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> I intend to do the following changes:
> - Rename linux-headers-$version to linux-support-$version.
>   linux-headers-$version was planned as dependency package and container
>   for the files necessary to bootstrap modules packages.
>   It is not longer a dependency package as build-dependencies have to be
>   real packages and I introduced
>   linux-headers-$version-$abiname-all-$arch for that work.
>   So it is only container for the support files and the package name
>   should reflect this.

As I understand it, linux-headers-$version is the filed shared by all
of the linux-headers-$version-$abiname-all-$arch packages - so what
about linux-headers-$version-common, or linux-headers-$version-shared?
The word "support" doesn't make sense to me in this context.

-- 
dann frazier



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