On Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 09:26:33PM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote:
your subject suggests that you are looking for a solution for huge upstream packages in general but reading your mail I get the feeling that you are looking for a solution for src:linux specifically?
The Linux kernel is probably the most prominent example of this use case and I can't come up with another package that has this kind of complexity, but I actually tried to take a few steps back from the kernel and to look at the challenge from a more general point of view. That didn't work though.
I'd also like to mention that a lot of things have changed in this department recently. For example, the toml config format was only introduced in kernel version 6.7 and more and more things have recently become configurable via toml.
The last time I looked at the Debian kernel packaging was 20 years ago. Glad to hear that things have become simpler.
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