Hi Maximilain, Am Dienstag, den 16.03.2010, 15:47 +0100 schrieb maximilian attems: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 02:41:16PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > I???d like to amend this wishlist bug report. I???d find it very useful to > > have a linux-doc-2.6 meta package automatically pulling in the latest > > -doc package, corresponding to the installed kernel. Same thing with a > > linux-source-2.6 meta packages. > > > > Are there any issues with this approach? Or is it just that someone has > > to write the code? > > yep it is low priority, probably you just need to add some entry > to linux-latest-2.6, feel free to submit patch against sid svn branch.
I gave it a shot. Patch against latest svn is attached, here is the resulting change to the generated control file: $ diff -u debian/control-before debian/control --- debian/control-before 2010-03-16 16:56:36.000000000 +0100 +++ debian/control 2010-03-16 17:11:04.000000000 +0100 @@ -6,6 +6,20 @@ Standards-Version: 3.7.3 Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 7), linux-support-2.6.32-3 +Package: linux-source-2.6 +Provides: linux-source +Depends: linux-source-2.6.32 +Description: Linux kernel source for Linux 2.6 + This package depends on packages containing the sources of the latest + Linux kernel 2.6. + +Package: linux-doc-2.6 +Provides: linux-doc +Depends: linux-doc-2.6.32 +Description: Linux kernel specific documentation for version 2.6 + This package depends on the package containing the documentation for the + latest Linux kernel 2.6. + Package: linux-image-alpha-generic Architecture: alpha Provides: linux-latest-modules-2.6.32-3-alpha-generic Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
Index: debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- debian/changelog (Revision 15398)
+++ debian/changelog (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+linux-latest-2.6 (26) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+ * Create linux-doc-2.6 and linux-source-2.6 meta packages (Closes: 347284)
+
+ -- Joachim Breitner <nome...@debian.org> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:12:42 +0100
+
linux-latest-2.6 (25) unstable; urgency=high
* Update package description templates in line with linux-2.6.
Index: debian/bin/gencontrol.py
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--- debian/bin/gencontrol.py (Revision 15398)
+++ debian/bin/gencontrol.py (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -31,6 +31,12 @@
['linux-support-%s%s' % (self.version.linux_upstream, self.abiname)]
)
+ latest_source = self.templates["control.source.latest"][0]
+ packages.append(self.process_package(latest_source, vars))
+
+ latest_doc = self.templates["control.doc.latest"][0]
+ packages.append(self.process_package(latest_doc, vars))
+
def do_flavour_packages(self, packages, makefile, arch, featureset, flavour, vars, makeflags, extra):
config_base = self.config.merge('base', arch, featureset, flavour)
config_description = self.config.merge('description', arch, featureset, flavour)
Index: debian/templates/control.source.latest.in
===================================================================
--- debian/templates/control.source.latest.in (Revision 0)
+++ debian/templates/control.source.latest.in (Revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Package: linux-sour...@major@
+Depends: linux-sour...@upstreamversion@
+Provides: linux-source
+Description: Linux kernel source for Linux @major@
+ This package depends on packages containing the sources of the latest Linux
+ kernel @ma...@.
+
Index: debian/templates/control.doc.latest.in
===================================================================
--- debian/templates/control.doc.latest.in (Revision 0)
+++ debian/templates/control.doc.latest.in (Revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Package: linux-d...@major@
+Depends: linux-d...@upstreamversion@
+Provides: linux-doc
+Description: Linux kernel specific documentation for version @major@
+ This package depends on the package containing the documentation for the
+ latest Linux kernel @ma...@.
+
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