Bug#221132: ITP: kernel-image-2.4.22-xfs -- Linux kernel image for version 2.4.22 w/ XFS support

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:

> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> * Package name    : kernel-image-2.4.22-xfs
>   Version         : 2.4.22-3-1
>   Upstream Author : Linus Torvalds <Linus.Torvalds@cs.Helsinki.FI> et al.
> * License         : GPL
>   Description     : Linux kernel image for version 2.4.22 w/ XFS support
> 
> This package is essentially a clone of the existing
> kernel-image-2.4.22-i386 package, with the XFS kernel patch from SGI
> applied.  The primary aim of this package is the creation of kernel
> images for an XFS-enabled debian-installer variant for sarge; additional
> kernel image packages may be made available in accordance with popular
> demand and the limitations of my development environment.
> 
> Given the amount of code touched by the XFS patch, I think it would be
> inappropriate to include it in our main kernel images prior to upstream
> integration, but there is definitely demand for an XFS-enabled
> installer; hence this ITP.

Please build-depend on the kernel-tree and kernel-patch-xfs packages
instead of including the patch yourself. kernel-patch-xfs might need
some porting towards make-kpkg though.

MfG
        Goswin