[Pkg-xen-devel] Re: [Pkg-xen-changes] r13 - trunk/debian

[Ralph Passgang]

Am Freitag, 17. Februar 2006 19:31 schrieb Guido Trotter:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 04:52:20PM +0000, Ralph Passgang wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > We don't want to suggest linux-xen0-2.6, because that was just my xen0
> > kernel package.
>
> Are you sure? It seems that every xen kernel compiled with make-kpkg
> provides linux-xen0 and linux-xen0-2.6! This is my kernel:
>
> root at xeno:/usr/src# dpkg-deb --info
> kernel-xen0-2.6.12.6xeno002_002_i386.deb ...
>  Provides: kernel-xen0, kernel-xen0-2.6
>  ...
>
> That was why I left it...

That's funny, because the name "linux-xen0-2.6" was more or less a free 
choosen name by myself without any of those thinks in mind. I even never 
noticed that the actual kernel package "provides" this already

In fact my "linux-xen0-2.6" package just provides the actual kernel .deb 
(called linux-xen0-2.6.12.6-xen_tha1_<arch>.deb on sid/etch and 
kernel-xen0-2.6.12.6-xen_tha1_<arch>.deb on sarge) and were only some kind of 
container package, because in needed some kind of source package for my 
autobuilder system to build a kernel package like a normal debian source 
package. as I said already, my kernel packages are more or less just a big 
hack and not for an offical debian release.

But even if every make-kpkg kernel provides a linux-xen0-2.6 meta-package, 
does it really help the user?

If the user hasn't compiled a kernel by himself then he will not find the 
suggested package in the offical debian archive (and might report that as bug 
or whatever) and if he has already compiled a kernel on his own, then he 
doesn't need any further suggestions. It only will confuse users, won't it?

I think we should only suggest packages that are offical debian packages and 
not what the user can build on his own or what might be available on external 
archives. Imho we should only add these suggestion again when we are having a 
way to provide kernel images with security support, but that might get the 
hard (as discussed in other threads already).

--Ralph

> Guido
>
>
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