On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 08:05:22AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > I hope that this arrangements is acceptable by everyone while still > > helping at least users who are mostly interested in the code that Debian > > does distributes. Hopefully these are most of the users. > > What is the real problem ? you don't want to use the debian kernel, but the > upstream one, it is up to you. you get the individual debian patches, and > apply all of them to your kernel-source, except the ones that touch the > firmwared stuff or whatever. > > Christoph, i don't remember if the debian-patch package does include also the > standalone patches, or only the global debian version ones. Maybe the easiest > thing would be some tag in the DP: lines of the dpatches that mark a patch as > touching not-upstream-clean stuff, and have a script or something to apply, > with an option to include or not those.
kernel-patch-debian is monolithic patches only. I still don't understand it's purpose anyway - the .diff.gz for kernel-source is much more usefull.
