On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:45:54 +0100, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If that's the best advice we can get, kernel-package's documentation
> should mention that it should only be used by experience people - it
> should do that at the places where one finds it, in particular in the
> description of the modules_image target in the make-kpkg manpage.
I don't think that kernel-package should only be used by
experience people, so I am not going to have the man page say that.
>> i might come back even grumpier next time when i'll hit the dup ;) no
>> real please use module-assisant and be happy. kernel-package is even
>> no longer a supported way to build linux-2.6
> Ah, that's interesting. I don't see any documentation on this in
> kernel-package in sid, nor a bug report requesting to add it. I do see
> that kernel-package has quite a lot of rather old bugs (both in terms
> of submission, and of last modified), but that doesn't mean one
> shouldn't use the package...
> Manoj, don't you think you should indicate in your package if
> development of Debian kernels and kernel-package has so much diverged
> that it gets hard for you to keep them working together (it seems you
> don't get support on this from the kernel-package maintainers...)
If the kernel team no longer uses kernel-package, I can stop
supporting them -- and remove any mention of official packages from the
code, as well as the documentation.
manoj
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