Package: dpkg Severity: wishlist Hello,
I'd like to suggest adding a "Kernel:" tag to the control file. I think it'd be very useful to allow combinations of kernels and architechtures that need to be done manually as now. Moreover, in the future with the coming of kernel-ports like GNU/Hurd, GNU/*BSD and GNU/W32, this would become still more useful. The most dramatical situation we could find is that, if someday we have a debian port for, say, each of the 45 (and more to come) architechture NetBSD is ported to, the maintainer of a netbsd-specific package will be forced to type *all* the architechtures: Architechture: netbsd-i386, netbsd-.... (up to 45 entries) While if we had a Kernel: tag it'd be as simple as this: Architechture: any Kernel: netbsd Please implement this feature, for this would add a lot of flexibility to porters working on non-linux ports. Regards, -- -------------------------------------------------- Robert Millan Debian GNU/Hurd user zeratul2 wanadoo es http://getyouriso.dyndns.org/ -------------------------------------------------- GPG ID C8D6942C 237F 8688 C2E5 BC64 E152 97B4 FB28 D41B C8D6 942C -------------------------------------------------- Some words for my friends Carnivore and Echelon -------------------------------------------------- FBI CIA NSA Assault Bomb Terrorism Jihad Allah Ossama Bin Laden Saddam Hussein Handgun Assault Plane Crash Pentagon World Trade Center Whitehouse President Bush Putin Twin Towers Air Force One USA America DeCCS RIAA BSA piracy illegal drugs heroin Big Brother is watching you defcon nuclear holocaust world war arabian afghanistan cryptography PGP GPG crack RSA algorithm Chechnya OMON Spetsnaz T-72 Merkava M1A1 Abrams Chieftain Challenger Turret Apache Missiles Skinheads troopers Kazakhstan Muhhamed Atta ----------------------------------------------------------- Put this in your signature and join us in confusing the Big Brother
