Clint Adams wrote: > > Single source packages are nice, but not practical in the debian case. I > > guess you will have uploads multiplied by 12 or so compared to today, if > > you want to keep the reactivity that is possible today. > > It works for glibc, though that is uploaded much too infrequently.
glibc is easier to handle because it can use the kernel's hardware abstraction. With a single kernel package, you'd have to wait with a new i386 release until the user of one of the more obscure mips subarchitectures gave it a try on his box. That's simply not practical. Btw, so far nobody explained why a single kernel package should be beneficial. In the ideal case, the arch-specific one contains only the debian/ directory and the kernel config files. It's nearly zero effort to keep it that way, and it allows much more leeway to handle less ideal cases. Thiemo
