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Re: pending linux-2.6 changes



On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 05:27:53PM -0700, dann frazier wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 08:28:44PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > - 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

No. linux-headers-$version-$abiname-all-$arch are empty[tm] packages
which depends on any headers packages for the given architecture.
linux-headers-$version don't contain any header, it is only a container
for a verbatim copy of debian/{arch,lib,modules}.

Bastian

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