On Thu, 2016-09-15 at 17:09 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Package: user-mode-linux > Version: 4.7-1um-1 > Severity: normal > > A separate source package for user-mode-linux made sense 15 years > ago, > when a huge patch of non-upstreamed kernel code existed for user- > mode-linux. > > What is left today in the user-mode-linux source package are 6 small > patches to UML-specific code (2 or 3 of them look Debian-specific) > and the kernel configurations for i386 and amd64. > > There doesn't seem to be any good reason left for a separate source > package, and this would also bring DSA fixes for stretch kernels > automatically to the user-mode-linux kernel.
I'm open to the possibility of folding this into src:linux, if someone in (or joining) the kernel team can take responsibility for maintaining it. Now that all the userland tools are built from src:linux, it might not be that hard to add UML. There are a few issues I can immediately see: - UML binaries can't be built using the existing makefile rules for linux-image packages, as they need different package names, installation paths, and maintainer scripts. This would need entirely new rules. - The current base config (debian/config/config) might not make any sense for UML (but then, maybe all the irrelevant stuff will simply be disabled automatically). - I'm a little concerned about the possibility of build breakage in UML that would then block everything else built from src:linux. Does UML break often? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
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