linux-mvl-dove_2.6.31-0.2_source.changes rejected

[Steve Langasek]

Hi Tim,

I'm rejecting the linux-mvl-dove package from the NEW queue because of this:

 Package: linux-mvl-dove-libc-dev
 Architecture: armel
 Conflicts: libc6-dev (<< 2.3.2.ds1-6), libc6.1-dev (<< 2.3.2.ds1-6), dvb-dev (<< 1.0.1-6), linux-mvl-dove-kernel-headers
 Replaces: libc6-dev (<< 2.3.2.ds1-6), libc6.1-dev (<< 2.3.2.ds1-6), dvb-dev (<< 1.0.1-6), linux-mvl-dove-kernel-headers, libdrm-dev
 #Provides: linux-mvl-dove-kernel-headers
 Description: linux-mvl-dove Kernel Headers for development
  This package provides headers from the linux-mvl-dove kernel. These
  headers are used by the installed headers for GNU glibc and other system
  libraries. They are NOT meant to be used to build third-party modules
  for your kernel. Use linux-mvl-dove-headers-* packages for that.

'linux-libc-dev' is the one and only package name of this sort that we
should have in the archive.  It is the package that fulfills the libc6-dev
package's dependencies, and there should be one and only one of this package
per architecture - we do not need or want per-flavor versions of this
package.

Please correct this and reupload.

For a number of reasons, I also think this package name is wrong:

  Package: linux-mvl-dove-headers-2.6.31-0-dove

Given that all kernel flavor names will always be unique within an
architecture (they must be since the kernel image packages are named
linux-image-$kvers-$abi-$flavor), I believe it's preferable to name all of
the header packages linux-headers-$kvers-$abi-$flavor as well regardless of
which source package they come from.  Oliver has noted in discussion that
there is code in livecd-rootfs that looks for the standard package name
pattern linux-headers-2*:

     chroot ${ROOT} dpkg -l linux-headers-2\* | grep ^i | awk '{print $2}' \
         > livecd.${FSS}.manifest-headers

So these linux-mvl-dove-headers-* packages won't match the pattern and will
be missed.

Unlike the linux-libc-dev issue, I don't think this part is a blocker for
acceptance into the archive, but I do think it should be changed when you
have a chance.

Thanks,
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