On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 20:09:57 +0200 Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 01:04:00PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > Sadly in Debian there is no way to make that happen. Think for example > > > about bin-nmu. > > Could you give a complete list of problems? > > There are at least those problems: > - Bin-nmu can't change binary package names. > - There is no way to embed a Debian version into a Debian package name > without loss. (Okay, I think we would only need ~, all the othe > characters are allowed) > > Bastian This whole discussion to me even more strongly suggests that the current way of trying to satisfy these requirements on kernels availability shouldn't really be delegated only to packages content. And that's before we get into ESP size issues. So the idea to split these apart - packages install to /usr/, and a separate mechanism manages what is available under /boot/ and for how long, depending also on how much space there is - seems more and more the right way forward. Just my 2c. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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