On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > The only drawback I can see is how to keep track of upstream > > version versus Debian package version. Having separate source packages > > makes it easy, because the binary target also reflects the upstream > > version number. > > right. however, I'd like to use the same version scheme we use for > linux-modules-extra-2.6 in future for firmware-nonfree too (whereas the > 'kernel-version' from lme version would be translated to the > firmware-nonfree source package version). That solves your concern about > version numbers. Do you have any others?
This provides a match against a kernel package version, which says nothing of the upstream firmware version that the binary package provides. As those firmware blobs don't tend to be specific to a kernel build, this version scheme isn't very practical. -- Martin-Éric Racine http://q-funk.iki.fi
