Bug#548466: real kernel is undependable

[Vasilis Vasaitis <v.vasaitis@sms.ed.ac.uk>]

  (Jumping into the conversation because I've been bitten by this
too.)

> > - don't put too much version information into the name of the
> >    "real" kernel package, and use the debian version number
> >    instead
> 
> No, the binary package names must change for every ABI change, just as
> for shared libraries.

  Err, that's for every *incompatible* ABI change, no?

> Fact is I cannot install linux-image-2.6-amd64 at the moment, because
> the old "real" kernel package was removed from the archive, regardless
> that there is no conflict with the new one. At install time I have to
> know the exact name of the current kernel package, which is very
> painful for scripting.

  I guess another option is for the maintainers of linux-latest-2.6 to
make sure that their binary packages do not become uninstallable,
which is a serious bug anyway.

Regards,
Vasilis

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Vasilis Vasaitis
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