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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