Re: kernel headerts and libc6
Hi,
All righty then. This needs coperation between me, the
kernel-* package mantianers, and the libc6-dev maintainer.
I am goint to release the updated kernel-package which shall
have an extra target called libc-kheaders. make-kpkg shall be
modified to accept this, and it shall be documented, even though I am
sure people shall abuse that by creating incompatible libc-kheaders
versions on their own machines (not our problem).
The kernel-* package maintainer then has to create a special
libc-kheader package rom the 2.0.32 kernel sources (I do not think
there is any need to re-issue the other kernel-* packages.) This
package shall have to be manually signed, and uploaded.
It may help if the release manager and the archive manager see
that it does not get held up in Incoming too long, while libc6-dev
zips along into the archive, since everyone not using APT shall have
problems with an uninstallable libc6-dev.
The control file shall make this package conflict with
libc6-dev (<= 2.0.7pre1-4). I suggest that the next version of
libc6-dev does not have symlinks in /usr/include (libc-kheaders shall
create directories in /usr/include), and it should depend on
libc-kheaders. APT would then deconfigure/remove libc6-dev; install
libc-kheaders, and re-install libc6-dev, right, Jason?
The sutomatic update script should also be updated when all
this is updated and in place.
Have I missed anything? Any objections?
And all this cause people don't read manuals ;-)
manoj
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