On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:48:26PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:40:11PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > > There are already several forks of the Linux kernel in Debian anyway. > > Robert wishes to attempt to unify them, does that not grant him use of the > > name 'linux'? > > No he doesn't. He wants to create a new arbitrary patch set, in a > context where arbitrary patch sets have always been given distinct > names, and to call it by the "vanilla" name. It's irresponsible.
You're deliberately confusing the upstream name with the Debian patchset. > He doesn't even have the slim excuse of being implicitly the Debian > variant, because there would be two. All this can create is confusion. As I said before, I'm using the patches in kernel-patch-debian. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
