On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:50:18AM +0000, Andrew Ferrier wrote:

> Package: rootstrap
> Version: 0.3.21-1
> Followup-For: Bug #275410
> 
> I think it might be better if the dependency on user-mode-linux was dropped 
> entirely. From kernel 2.6.9 onwards, the UML patch is integrated into the 
> kernel, and thus the user-mode-linux package is not needed at all. Plus 
> rootstrap has other uses valid without UML, as the description admits:
> 
>  Rootstrap was originally written to provide a facility for building
>  filesystems for use with User-mode Linux, but can be useful in other
>  applications as well.
> 
> Maybe it should be moved to Recommends/Suggests?

It depends on whether we apply the same policy about self-built kernels for
UML as with normal kernels.

-- 
 - mdz


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