Re: mips-tools deb

[Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org>]

Hi Adrian,
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 06:57:49AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
[..snip..] 
> > addinitrd(add intitrd to the kernel) and elf2ecoff(convert an elf binary
> > into an ecoff binary) both come with the kernel-sources but are also
> > needed by other programs. elf2ecoff is needed by arcboot and addinitrd
> > by the bootfloppies. I'd like to split these two tools out of the
> > kernel-source and maintain them in a separate mips-tools package. Any
> > objections, any other tools that would fit in there?
> 
> this is not an objection, only a question:
> 
> Is there a reason against asking Herbert Xu to build these packages
> directly from the kernel-source-* package (mkcramfs is already built
> from kernel-source-* on all architectures)?
Sounds good, as long as we only need tools from the kernel source. So if
nothing else is going to be included, I'll ask Herbert to do so.
Thanks,
 -- Guido