Your message dated Sat, 26 Oct 2019 07:08:48 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#943361: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #918664, regarding linux-latest: please provide a meta package for a sane architecture-specific default to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Source: linux-latest Version: 4.17+95 Severity: wishlist Hi, please provide an architecture-specific meta package which depends on a sane default of a kernel image on that architecture. For example: Package: linux-image Depends: linux-image-powerpc64 [ppc64], linux-image-parisc [hppa], linux-image-armmp [armhf], linux-image-686 [i386], ... I know that the right kernel image is not a function of the Debian architecture alone. But this meta-package is not supposed to replace kernel selection for d-i or the like. It is meant to be one central place to encode a sane default mapping in the Debian linux kernel package instead of (poorly) replicating such a mapping in individual packages. Examples: https://sources.debian.org/src/autopkgtest/5.7/tools/autopkgtest-build-qemu/?hl=118#L100 https://sources.debian.org/src/supermin/5.1.19-4/debian/control/?hl=26#L17 https://sources.debian.org/src/live-build/1:20180925/scripts/build/installer_debian-installer/?hl=330#L317 https://sources.debian.org/src/fai/5.7.3/conf/NFSROOT/?hl=64#L49 https://sources.debian.org/src/propellor/5.5.0-2/src/Propellor/Property/Machine.hs/?hl=192#L186 https://sources.debian.org/src/libguestfs/1:1.38.6-2/debian/control/?hl=53#L52 https://sources.debian.org/src/nbdkit/1.8.2-1/debian/control/?hl=25#L23 https://sources.debian.org/src/python-diskimage-builder/2.16.0-1/diskimage_builder/elements/debian-minimal/package-installs.yaml/?hl=3#L1 https://sources.debian.org/src/debootstick/2.1/scripts/create-image/target/pc/packages/?hl=11#L14 I stumbled across this problem because I was about to write some similar logic in my own upstream project mmdebstrap. I thought that instead, such a default mapping from Debian architecture to sensible linux kernel image default should live in the linux-latest source package. Thanks! cheers, josch
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 107+rm Dear submitter, as the package linux-latest has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/943361 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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