In which section should go this kernel patch package (tuxonice)?
Hi, I'm trying to make a deb of kernel patch tuxonice[1], an alternative way to suspend-to-disk and suspend-to-ram. In which section should this package go? admin? devel? What is tuxonice: TuxOnIce is most easily described as the Linux equivalent of Windows' hibernate functionality. It saves the contents of memory to disk and powers down. When the computer is started up again, it reloads the contents and the user can continue from where they left off. No documents need to be reloaded or applications reopened and the process is much faster than a normal shutdown and start up. Thanks in advance, Mattia 1 http://www.tuxonice.net/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: In which section should go this kernel patch package (tuxonice)?
Hello, On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Mattia Oss wrote: I'm trying to make a deb of kernel patch tuxonice[1], an alternative way to suspend-to-disk and suspend-to-ram. In which section should this package go? admin? devel? At first glance this is likely to be more than one package. There is the kernel-patch which would be in devel, the hibernate script which would be in admin and the user-interface which could be in utils. What is tuxonice: TuxOnIce is most easily described as the Linux equivalent of Windows' hibernate functionality. It saves the contents of memory to disk and powers down. When the computer is started up again, it reloads the contents and the user can continue from where they left off. No documents need to be reloaded or applications reopened and the process is much faster than a normal shutdown and start up. This description would probably not be enough. For example, as you said in your mail it is an alternative to the in-kernel suspend which is part of the stock Debian kernels and the uswsusp which is the user-space suspend which depends on some in-kernel features (again stock Debian kernel features). Both of these could be described as the Linux equivalent of Windows' hibernate functionality (sic). What will distinguish your package from these earlier ones? You should say this crisply in your package Description. Another thing is that there is already a package called hibernate which may cause a conflict with the version you are planning to package. Perhaps you should co-ordinate with that maintainer. That said, best wishes on your effort to package this functionality for Debian. Regards, Kapil. -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: In which section should go this kernel patch package (tuxonice)?
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:42:32 +0530 Kapil Hari Paranjape [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At first glance this is likely to be more than one package. There is the kernel-patch which would be in devel, the hibernate script which would be in admin and the user-interface which could be in utils. I'm trying to package only the kernel patch; the hibernate and tuxonice-userui programs are already packaged in debian. This description would probably not be enough. For example, as you said in your mail it is an alternative to the in-kernel suspend which is part of the stock Debian kernels and the uswsusp which is the user-space suspend which depends on some in-kernel features (again stock Debian kernel features). Both of these could be described as the Linux equivalent of Windows' hibernate functionality (sic). You are right, I copy-and-pasted from the homepage. But honestly, the first time I read it, I understood what this package was about. At least it's clear. Should I change it?. This is what it's in the package description. In the README.Debian I'll put all the features of this package. Another thing is that there is already a package called hibernate which may cause a conflict with the version you are planning to package. Perhaps you should co-ordinate with that maintainer. I'm not trying to package the hibernate script; only the kernel patch for debian linux source. I talked with the hibernate package maintainer and he was so kind to check my debian package. One question was about in which section should this package go. And here we go. So it should be devel, right? That said, best wishes on your effort to package this functionality for Debian. Regards, Kapil. Thank you very much, Mattia signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: In which section should go this kernel patch package (tuxonice)?
Hello, On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Mattia Oss wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:42:32 +0530 Kapil Hari Paranjape [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At first glance this is likely to be more than one package. There is the kernel-patch which would be in devel, the hibernate script which would be in admin and the user-interface which could be in utils. I'm trying to package only the kernel patch; the hibernate and tuxonice-userui programs are already packaged in debian. I misunderstood. So it should be devel, right? Right. I think the remaining linux-patch-* packages are in devel too! By the way, you should figure out whether your patch is compatible with the default (patched) debian linux source or it needs the upstream linux sources. It will need to be applied and compiled accordingly. Regards, Kapil. -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: In which section should go this kernel patch package (tuxonice)?
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:53:02 +0530 Kapil Hari Paranjape [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Mattia Oss wrote: So it should be devel, right? Right. I think the remaining linux-patch-* packages are in devel too! This is what I thought! But when I searched in the debian archive I found: linux-patch-aufs: Section: misc linux-patch-bootsplash: Section: graphics linux-patch-debian-2.6.24: Section: devel linux-patch-debianlogo: Section: devel linux-patch-evms: Section: admin linux-patch-gcov: Section: devel linux-patch-openswan: Section: net linux-patch-skas: Section: devel That's why it was not much clear for me. By the way, you should figure out whether your patch is compatible with the default (patched) debian linux source or it needs the upstream linux sources. It will need to be applied and compiled accordingly. This patch will be compatible only with linux-source, that is the kernel with Debian patches already applied. Regards, Kapil. -- Again, thank you for your advices. Bye, Mattia. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: In which section should go this kernel patch package (tuxonice)?
Hello, On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Mattia Oss wrote: This is what I thought! But when I searched in the debian archive I found: linux-patch-aufs: Section: misc linux-patch-bootsplash: Section: graphics linux-patch-debian-2.6.24:Section: devel linux-patch-debianlogo: Section: devel linux-patch-evms: Section: admin linux-patch-gcov: Section: devel linux-patch-openswan: Section: net linux-patch-skas: Section: devel Interesting! It looks like my suggestion was not quite correct. It is also strange that bootsplash is in graphics but debianlogo is in devel! So admin seems to be a reasonable section as well. This patch will be compatible only with linux-source, that is the kernel with Debian patches already applied. That's nice. It means that one doesn't have to give up any of the other Debian features to obtain this feature. Regards, Kapil. -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
