On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:48:43PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:29:44PM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: > > The description from kernel-patch-debian and kernel-image does not > > list which patches are contained in the Debian diff. That way it's > > pretty hard to evaluate which benefits are already provided by using the > > debian kernel package compared to going vanilla (and patching in what > > you need apart from vanilla). > > Currently README.Debian in kernel-source has an incomplete list. I > talked to Jens about this and we can't see anything in Policy mandating > that at all, so we plan to remove that aswell. With the .dpatch > ification you can easily check in the source for yourself, all the > .dpatches have proper descriptions.
Maybe we should simply copy over the 00list-* somewhere in the package documentation ? Adding it to the description seems overkill to me though. Friendly, Sven Luther
