Bug#548466: real kernel is undependable

2009-09-28 Thread Harald Dunkel
On 09/28/09 04:04, Ben Hutchings wrote: The separation between linux-2.6 and linux-latest-2.6 allows for a later kernel version to be added to a suite without replacing the previous one, as with 2.6.24 added in etch-and-1/2. Neither of these options can achieve that. I understand how this

Bug#548466: real kernel is undependable

2009-09-28 Thread Vasilis Vasaitis
(Jumping into the conversation because I've been bitten by this too.) - don't put too much version information into the name of the real kernel package, and use the debian version number instead No, the binary package names must change for every ABI change, just as for shared

Bug#548466: real kernel is undependable

2009-09-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 16:06 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: Package: linux-latest-2.6 Version: 2.6.30+20 Severity: wishlist linux-image-amd64 and linux-image-2.6-amd64 seem to be pretty fragile. Every other day their dependency to the real kernel package is broken, because the kernel has been

Bug#548466: real kernel is undependable

2009-09-26 Thread Harald Dunkel
Package: linux-latest-2.6 Version: 2.6.30+20 Severity: wishlist linux-image-amd64 and linux-image-2.6-amd64 seem to be pretty fragile. Every other day their dependency to the real kernel package is broken, because the kernel has been updated and linux-latest-2.6 is not in sync. Do you think it