Hello Steven, please keep the recipients list, replying in public so this discussion can interest also other people.
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 02:24, Steven Pusser<steven.puss...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Sandro Tosi<mo...@debian.org> wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 19:57, Steven Pusser<steven.puss...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Package: wnpp >>> Severity: wishlist >>> >>> KernelCheck is a Python-based GUI that checks kernel.org and the >>> Master Kernel thread on the Ubuntu forums >>> for the latest Linux kernel sources and patches, then installs the >> >> is this somehow related to Debian? Can be used on a debian system in a >> productive way? > > Thank you for your reply. > > It's had quite a bit of testing on the Simply Mepis 8.0.6, which is > essentially Lenny under the hood. It depends on Python >= 2.5. > Unless the kernel building tools in Debian are renamed upstream, it > should work on all versions except oldstable. You didn't answer my question: can this package be useful to a Debian user? > It's mainly a tool for anyone that wants to easily customize their own > kernel; maybe optimize and strip out unwanted drivers. I realize Not from how you introduced it: it takes information from an ubuntu forum (that's not the most fortunate decision) so it doesn't seem so general purpose as you're asserting right above. > Debian maintains an experimental kernel build repository that may > duplicate much of this package's results. and so again: what's the point of this package in Debian? I don't care if Mepis is interested in it, it *must* be useful for Debian in the first place. > Master Kernel didn't file an ITP, and I didn't until after I put it up > in the mentors repository. and that's wrong, and already axplained > Should I pull the sources off there and > upload them elsewhere? I realize I'm going about this backwards, but > we worked on the packaging first to get it into his PPA and the Lenny > compatible Mepislovers community repo. Later came the idea to see if > it was worth trying to get it into Debian. I think it's not that useful here, but I look forward for other comments. Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
