** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Won't Fix
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/196069
Title:
Please review package naming and source hints
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Won't Fix
Bug description:
Please investigate the package naming, and naming relations
between the linux and linux-meta source packages. There are a few
behaviours I've observed in the last couple days that I found a little
odd:
1) The descriptions for the "linux" and "linux-generic" meta-packages
appear identical, except that the words "complete generic" and
"generic complete" are interchanged. How is a user to determine which
is appropriate for their system?
2) Running `apt-get source linux` oddly downloads the source for
linux-meta, rather than the source for linux.
3) Downloading the source for linux does not provide a Vcs-* pointer
to indicate that someone may be more interested in looking at the git
repository if proposing changes to the package.
I suspect there are likely a few more little naming and packaging
bits that would benefit from a review, and am not sure that any of
these are in themselves a significant bug. Please feel free to close
this bug after a review of namespaces, packaging, and the like,
without regard for whether any of the specific issues raised are
resolved.
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