This one time, at band camp, Matthew Garrett wrote: >Robert Millan wrote: >>On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 08:33:00PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: >>> klogd will be unable to look up symbols, and ps and top need it for >>> wchan to be displayable. >> >>I'm so scared. wchan won't be displayable! > >What were you saying about sarcasm? The fact remains that it's a bug, >and it's a bug that you should already have thought of. Put simply, if >this is the level of research you've done, I don't think you're suitable >for packaging something as important as the kernel. This doesn't mean >that you shouldn't do it (as an academic exercise it'd be a wonderful >learning experience, and lessons learned may be well applied else where) >- I just don't think it should go anywhere near the archive.
Bollocks. Kernels install /boot/System.map-$version. There's a symlink from /boot/System.map to the current version. You are told you need to reboot after installing a kernel package. How much more research is there that needs to be done for this particular issue? It looks to me like you're harping on a single issue which would have been encountered during the process of making this package, and based on this Robert is suddenly a second-class maintainer? If everyone in this project had to get the right answer first time, there would be a lot fewer maintainers and a lot fewer bugs in the BTS. >>You're mixing trivial maintainer issues with this ITP. It's very pity of you >>if you're doing it on purpose. > >No, I'm saying that you're proposing to package a major piece of >infrastructure and give it a name that may attract users into installing >it, and the amount of thought and consideration that you seem to have >put in is insufficiently large for me to consider that it'll do anything >other than convince people that Debian kernel packagers are on crack. >Which would, again, be bad. I'd reiterate that you're implying Robert is going to make a half-arsed attempt and upload something he hasn't tested, but I've already said that. Besides, it's already evident that Debian maintainers (as a superset of kernel packagers) are on crack. -- This thread scores 3 Trogdors out of a possible 5 for flamability.
