Eduard Bloch wrote: > Okay, but as long Ext3 is a kinde experimental, it will remain in a > separated kernel-image package. "apt-get install kernel-image.*ext3" > shouldn't be too complicated for users, IMHO.
Sure, if Debian wants to supply ext3-enabled kernel-image packages. > Please learn about what a patch-package is. You don't need > Debian-packaged kernel sources to use the patch-packages. A patch package > contains the same patch file with some nifty scripts for make-kpkg, but > does not require it. But the Debian kernel-sources typically have some patches applied already; they aren't just Linus's tarball converted to .deb. So, while it generally hasn't been a problem, it's possible that an ext3 patch generated against Linus's sources might fail on sources from a Debian package. Besides, since I'm not using the Debian kernel-source package or make-kpkg, I don't see any reason to prefer the Debian ext3 patch package over the original patch. Craig
