Hi, first and foremost, this discussion belongs on debian-kernel. Please take if off debian-devel right here and now.
Christoph Hellwig writes: > As William mentioned no one wants to take over any packages. His first message sounded quite different. I'm glad and thankful he made his intentions clearer now. > What I mentioned is that the separate packages must die, As far as I understand the recent discussion, the problem is *not* the architecture-specific kernel-patch packages, but rather the huge number of kernel-source packages. IMHO, this has to be dealt with by removing older kernel-image packages as soon as a newer release is available and sufficiently well tested, and removing older kernel-source packages as soon as no more kernel-image packages depend on them for building. > and with that I mean the existing maintainers should cooperate. Indeed. But cooperation already exists. So far, it meant that Herbert took the upstream source, prepared a kernel-source package, and put it up on people.d.o for the other maintainers to download and prepare their arch-specific kernel-image packages. Very efficient. I don't think we could come even close to this if we had one source package for all kernel-image packages. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!
