Dear Paul,

On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 10:02:47PM +1100, paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au wrote:
>
>
> I now tried that (not with apt-get but manually). I guess I needed the
> files:
>
> .../pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-2.6_2.6.26.orig.tar.gz
> .../pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-2.6_2.6.26-21.diff.gz
>
> (please confirm, or tell me what I messed up). After unpacking those,
> I find (essentially in the diff file) the

as told in seperate mail that is outdated, as 2.6.32 is current dev.

> .../linux-2.6-2.6.26/debian/templates/temp.image.plain/
>
> directory. However, to my surprise, those files are older than those
> from the kernel-package directory, for example:
>
> diff -r /usr/share/kernel-package/pkg/image/postinst linux-2.6-2.6.26/debian/templates/temp.image.plain/postinst
> 8,10c8,10
> < # Last Modified On : Wed Oct 8 00:03:41 2008
> < # Last Machine Used: anzu.internal.golden-gryphon.com
> < # Update Count : 360
> ---
> > # Last Modified On : Fri Sep 29 10:08:18 2006
> > # Last Machine Used: glaurung.internal.golden-gryphon.com
> > # Update Count : 357
> ...

well those lines have no other meanings as that they share a common
ancestor, they have been changed a lot since.
also 2.6.32 files have no longer those comments.

> Does that mean that kernel-package is in fact newer, and you should
> "import" again then use my patches (sent previously)?
>
> -----
>
> Should this bug somehow be "given" to kernel-package also (clone and
> reassign?): would you be able to do that?

don't know kernel-package is in slow maintenance,
better have linux-2.6 fixed.

but saw your old patch and can do that later tomorrow.

thanks for your input.

kind regards
maks



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Dear Maks,

> ... saw your old patch and can do that later tomorrow.

Thanks. Please also fix current Debian stable, do not make us wait until
2.6.32 trickles down.

>> Should this bug somehow be "given" to kernel-package also (clone and
>> reassign?): would you be able to do that?
> don't know kernel-package is in slow maintenance,

What does "slow maintenance" mean? They seem more up-to-date that
linux-2.6 in Debian stable. Anyway please arrange for kernel-package to
be fixed also.

Cheers, Paul

Paul Szabo psz@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia



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On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 09:01 +1100, paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au wrote:
> Dear Maks,
>
> > ... saw your old patch and can do that later tomorrow.
>
> Thanks. Please also fix current Debian stable, do not make us wait until
> 2.6.32 trickles down.
>
> >> Should this bug somehow be "given" to kernel-package also (clone and
> >> reassign?): would you be able to do that?
> > don't know kernel-package is in slow maintenance,
>
> What does "slow maintenance" mean? They seem more up-to-date that
> linux-2.6 in Debian stable. Anyway please arrange for kernel-package to
> be fixed also.

These maintainer script templates were written by Manoj Srivastava, who
left the kernel team but still maintains kernel-package. The script
templates in linux-2.6 and kernel-package are now two branches, and the
date headers in linux-2.6 have not been updated since they are redundant
with metadata maintained by the version control system.

Ben.

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Dear Ben,

> ... the date headers in linux-2.6 have not been updated ...

I only "whinged" about headers; content in 2.6.26-21 is also in fact
older than kernel-package. I do not know what you may have changed for
bleeding-edge 2.6.32; and of course I want Debian stable to be updated
(now or in the near future).

Seeing your reluctance to "talk" to kernel-package, I now reported
Bug#568823.

Please report the issue with
http://packages.debian.org/source/lenny/linux-2.6 .

Cheers, Paul

Paul Szabo psz@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia



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