Hi, Joshua Kwan writes:
> I fear that using NEWS.Debian won't be obvious enough. You may be right, given my experience with the NEWS.Debian file in the PowerPC kernel-image packages. Then again, nobody knows how many people read that file, paused to think, upgraded without major problems and therefore never showed up in the BTS and on the mailing lists. > I have no idea how to integrate [a debconf note] into the kernel > image package. In order to display a debconf note, you have to replace the postinst from kernel-package with our own version. The debian/rules file of kernel-patch-powerpc shows how this can be done: After building a dummy kernel-image package with make-kpkg, we unpack its contents with 'dpkg -x' and its control structure with 'dpkg -e'. Everything can then be mangled to our hearts' delight, and finally be re-packaged into the kernel-image package we actually ship. But. The more we change the official kernel-image packages after they are created by kernel-package, the bigger the divide between official and user-generated kernel-image packages becomes. This is a bad thing in itself, so changing the scripts included with kernel-package seems like a better way of doing it. But this is obviously for post-sarge. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!
