On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 16:01 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > I read about various accounts of newbies and others asking on ocassion > about 'why is debian upgrading my kernel?'. After reading the short > description on some of the kernel image packages, I think I understand > why and wanted to know if others though that my suggestion would address > this issue. The descrition on 'linux-image-2.6-k7' is 'This package > depends on the latest binary image for Linux kernel 2.6 on 32bit AMD > Duron/Athlon/AthlonXP machines.' While this subtly suggests that it may > upgrade your kernel, I think the wording could be improved to make it > dead clear. Something like 'This package depends on the lastest binary > image for $KERNEL kernel $VER on $BITbit $CPU machines. This package > will cause your kernel to be upgraded when you upgrade your system, so > if you do not want your kernel to be upgraded automatically, use the > specific kernel-image for your machine and not this metapackage.' > The change would affect every kernel-image, on i386 this is 20 package, > for a total of maybe 100 packages. So it would be a 'mass bug filing' > of a minor bug of either wishlist or normal severity. Sounds like a good idea, just be sure to discuss this on debian-devel before mass filing bugs, http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-beyond-pkging.en.html#s-submit-many-bugst -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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