Re: removing linux-patch-skas? [was Re: [Pkg-uml-pkgs] skas patch]

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

Mattia Dongili wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 07:38:49PM +0200, Matthias Rieber wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > are there any plans to update the skas patch to be usable in lenny? The 
> > current patch seems to be still the old one for etch (2.6.18).
> >
> > I've used the lenny kernel 2.6.22 with 
> > http://uml.nagafix.co.uk/skas-2.6.22-v9-pre9.patch.bz2, but know, lenny 
> > moved on to 2.6.25. Is someone aware of a SKAS3 patch for that kernel or 
> > it's time for SKAS4?
>
> The last skas3 patch that I saw on the UML-devel mailing list was for
> 2.6.24-rc7 and didn't receive any feedback.
>
> Skas4 is still too experimental and anyway the plan is to push it to the
> upstream kernel rather than keeping it as a separate patch.
>
> @debian-release:
> Maybe it's time to remove the {linux,kernel}-patch-skas packages?

Probably, yes. Please file a bug against ftp.debian.org asking for 
removal of the package.

Please do prod the right people to push it in the upstream kernel :-)

> Would this require a release note?

Removed packages will be mentioned in the release notes anyway. So use a 
good subject for the removal bug and explain the issue clearly in the 
bugreport.

Cheers

Luk