Sam Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This brings up an interesting point. While we should work with > upstream maintainers to fix these problems, we should also try to > avoid making these programs harder to build on Debian than other > distributions. If other distributions are still making headers > available in such a way that existing software builds, and we do not, > then we make lives harder for both our users and maintainers. Yes, it > may be more correct, but we need to be carefule not to correct our > users into frustration. Managing careful transition plans is also an > important part of correctness.
This is not something that we're doing. This is a decision taken by the upstream kernel maintainer(s). -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
