Metapackages for linux-restricted-modules

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 09:21:31AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:42:31AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > However, this raises the question of how to keep them in sync with the ones
> > built by linux-source, so that the "default version" of everything matches
> > up.  e.g., if I install linux-image-2.6 and linux-restricted-modules-2.6,
> > they should be the same version and everything should work.
> 
> I don't think you need to keep them in sync.  The restricted module
> packages depend on the corresponding linux-image packages.  So if
> you are going to install the restricted meta package, you don't need
> the linux-image meta package at all.
> 
> Having said, I certainly have no objections against building all meta
> packages from a separate source package.  BTW, does warty have a similar
> requirement to Debian where packages in main cannot depend on those
> outside of main?

I'm not sure we've written it down in so many words, but I think the
stipulation that packages in restricted should be easy to remove sort of
implies that packages (certainly important packages) in main shouldn't
depend on them.

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]