On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 11:21:11AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:37:24PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > > Jonathan Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > In what situation would the linux-kernel-headers package be needed > > > seperate from libc? > > > > Ths issue is not whether it is needed separately from libc-dev, the > > issue is that it comes from a different upstream source and thus is > > best handled in a separate source package. This requires it to be > > in a different binary package too. > > Precisely. > > The original reason it was separated was because I wanted to maintain > a separate set of .patch files for the Debian-local changes to the > kernel headers. This way was most convenient. Also, most fixes to the > kernel headers do not require glibc to be rebuilt.
Thank you both, that is then a perfectly reasonable and rational reason to have seperate packages. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/
