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Bug#918664: linux-latest: please provide a meta package for a sane architecture-specific default



Control: tag -1 wontfix

On Tue, 2019-01-08 at 09:20 +0100, Johannes 'josch' Schauer wrote:
> Source: linux-latest
> Version: 4.17+95
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi,
> 
> please provide an architecture-specific meta package which depends on a
> sane default of a kernel image on that architecture.
> 
> For example:
> 
> Package: linux-image
> Depends: linux-image-powerpc64 [ppc64],
>          linux-image-parisc [hppa],
>          linux-image-armmp [armhf],
>          linux-image-686 [i386],
>          ...
> 
> I know that the right kernel image is not a function of the Debian
> architecture alone. But this meta-package is not supposed to replace
> kernel selection for d-i or the like. It is meant to be one central
> place to encode a sane default mapping in the Debian linux kernel
> package instead of (poorly) replicating such a mapping in individual
> packages.

For many architectures there is no single good default - that's the
main reason why we have multiple flavours.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Any smoothly functioning technology is indistinguishable
from a rigged demo.


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