Re: Status of kernel patch packages

2010-03-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 00:39 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:35:33PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: [...] > > But I'm not aware of a git tree holding the debian kernels - SVN is > > still listed as the VCS for the linux-2.6 package (which, BTW, > > continues to surprise me). > >

Re: Status of kernel patch packages

2010-03-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Mar 23 2010, Yann Dirson wrote: > Let's maybe stay focussed on the initial problem: we *had* a way to > handle kernel patches as part of a self-contained distribution, but > there is no support for this any more. Moreover that support we had > was not 100% satisfactory (eg. bad handling

Re: Status of kernel patch packages

2010-03-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:35:33PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:17:22AM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:14:59 +0100 > > Yann Dirson wrote: > > > So the question is, is it time to request removal of those packages, > > > or is there any remaining rea

Re: Status of kernel patch packages

2010-03-23 Thread Yann Dirson
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:57:01AM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 05:39:00PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 05:28:33PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > > >On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:17:22AM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > >>On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:14:59 +0

Re: Status of kernel patch packages

2010-03-23 Thread Yann Dirson
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:17:22AM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:14:59 +0100 > Yann Dirson wrote: > > So the question is, is it time to request removal of those packages, > > or is there any remaining reason not to do so that I missed ? > > As linux-patch-tomoyo1.7 package

Status of kernel patch packages

2010-03-23 Thread Yann Dirson
[this and the following mails are resent versions, my mails did not make it to the list due to some config problem - sorry for any dups this may cause] Since April 2009, kernel-package has no use any more for the {kernel,linux}-patch-* packages (AFAIK the current recommended way of patching a kern

Re: Status of kernel patch packages

2010-03-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 05:28:33PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:17:22AM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:14:59 +0100 Yann Dirson wrote: > So the question is, is it time to request removal of those > packages, or is there any remaining reason not to do

Re: Status of kernel patch packages

2010-03-20 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi Yann Thanks for the reminder. Yes it is time to remove at least the openvz kernel patch package. Best regards, // Ola On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 03:14:59PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > Since April 2009, kernel-package has no use any more for the > {kernel,linux}-patch-* packages (AFAIK the curre

Re: Status of kernel patch packages

2010-03-20 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:14:59 +0100 Yann Dirson wrote: > So the question is, is it time to request removal of those packages, > or is there any remaining reason not to do so that I missed ? As linux-patch-tomoyo1.7 package maintainer, tomoyo is merged with mainline, but it's not fully feat