Re: Obsolete information in debian-handbook? (linux-patch-* packages)

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 9:47 PM Samuel Plavec <samuelplavec@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In the context of kernel patching, the Debian Administrator's Handbook
> mentions linux-patch-* packages. I have never heard of packages like
> that, and no such packages appear to exist in any current Debian
> release.
>
> Is the information in the Handbook obsolete?
>
> The section in question is here:
> https://www.debian.org/doc//manuals/debian-handbook/sect.kernel-compilation.en.html#sect.kernel-patch
>
> Please CC me when replying. Thank you.

Yeah, there's a lot of old information in the handbook.

I think the saying goes, "patches welcomed,"
<https://salsa.debian.org/hertzog/debian-handbook>.

Jeff