> It may be a feature, but it's an unexpected and confusing one.
OK. I'll put a README file in the Debian directory and in /usr/src/linux.
I expect some small degree of sophistication of anyone who uses the source
package and the boot-floppies package (which also builds itself).
This is a decisio
("What's the "debian" stuff in the /usr/src/linux directory?",
I was asked...)
On Sun, 5 Nov 1995, Bruce Perens wrote:
> It's a feature! The /usr/src/linux directory can re-build all of the
> Debian kernel packages ("image", "includes", and "source") using itself
> as the source. The Debian sub-
It's a feature! The /usr/src/linux directory can re-build all of the
Debian kernel packages ("image", "includes", and "source") using itself
as the source. The Debian sub-directory and the debian.rules file are
necessary for this functionality. I felt this was the most elegant
solution to the probl
package: source
version: 1.2.13-4
I ran into a debian user a while ago, and he asked me what the
Debian directory was doing in the kernel sources. I'd never noticed
it and had to say I didn't know.
I see now that /usr/src/linux/Debian contains kernel-headers,
kernel-image, and kernel-source sub
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