On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 01:32:56PM +0900, Horms wrote: > > Nope, the latest are now provided by the linux-2.6 package as a legacy > > compatibility thingy and depend on the linux-image 2.6.12 kernels. I think > > from now on, and with the exception of the mips kernels, all 2.6 kernel > > related source packages which are not linux-2.6 should go. > > Sven, I don't think this is the case. Examining > kernel-headers-2.6-686-smp in sid I find that it is a package > produced by the kernel-latest-2.6-i386 source package. I do not > see it provided as a virtual or real package by linux-2.6. > If I understand Jeroen correctly, this needs to be resolved. > > In a nutshell it seems that kernel-image-2.6-<flavour> is > handled by linux-2.6 but kernel-headers-2.6-<flavour> > > This problem does not seem to exist on powerpc because the header > packages, (called kernel-build-*) were never released as generic > 2.6-<flavour> dummy packages. However, adding > kernel-headers-2.6-<flavour> as part of the transition would do no harm.
Well, i wonder if this is a bad thing or not, or if we should kill the meta-backward-compatible-header packages. We have to see the use case oif those, which are exclusively used to build modules, and we need to setup a new way of building modules and document it anyway, so this should not be a major problem. Also, if the user don't upgrade those, nothing major will break, apart from the fact that he has a few unused bits on his harddisk. So, i vote for simply removing them, and provide some notice of the fact and the new module build model in the release notes or something. > With this in mind we can divide all architectures into two camps. > > 1. Provide dummy headers packages, which need to be provided by > linux-2.6 for now: > alpha, amd64, hppa, i386, s390, sparc > > 2. Do not provide dummy header packages, but adding them to linux-2.6 > would not do much harm (not adding them would't do any harm either): > arm, ia64, m68k, mips[*], mipsel[*], powerpc, sh[*] > > [*] mips, mipsel and sh are not currently built from the > unified linux-2.6 package > > So while we would like to get everything 2.6 that didn't come > from linux-2.6, and isn't for mips (or sh?) out of the archive, > it seems we need to add a little more package magic first. Maybe, but see above. Friendly; Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
