On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 07:16:57PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 08 June 2006 13:33, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > - increasing differences between the Sarge 2.6.8 and current kernels; > > > > That is a reason for. > > Only if we _would_ include some backports repository that is known to have > a current backported kernel and all other packages needed with that > kernel, but without random backports of other packages. And we would need > some guarantees about the maintenance of and procedures for changes in > such a repository (compare volatile.d.n).
volatile.d.n is not a valid solution for this, since it doesn't allow for a flexible enough upload of packages (like bumped build-dependencies for stuff like kernel-package and other kernel related packages). The kernel team did already have this discussion some time ago (last year ever) and the result was to use kernel.debian.org as a repository for those. Check the debian-kernel archive for details. That said, currently, backports are not an easy solution because of udev, which cannot be taken as is without pulling in the whole gnome, so a bit of work is needed. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
