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  • Re: Proposed changes to linux package

    From Bastian Blank@21:1/5 to Bastian Blank on Sat Oct 22 11:40:01 2022
    On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 10:59:30AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
    I would like to do some last minute changes to the linux package

    # Drop special case use of rcX as abi name

    While having the ability to distiguish between different RC, it changes
    the package names every time.

    Bastian

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  • From Bastian Blank@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 22 11:20:01 2022
    Hi

    I would like to do some last minute changes to the linux package

    # Use pristine-lfs

    Currently we don't have any way of storing orig tars. I would like to
    change that and default to pristine-lfs for that, so we can setup the
    build tree without manual work.

    # Don't longer list stable changes in the changelog

    Currently we list all stable changes in the changelog. As we drop old
    entries, this still have a 500k compressed changelog, even if the
    package contents itself are way smaller.

    # Supply compressed modules

    This needs some changes to kernel-wedge, but it will reduce our
    footprint massively.

    Bastian

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    It would be illogical to kill without reason.
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  • From Bastian Blank@21:1/5 to Bastian Blank on Sun Oct 23 15:50:01 2022
    On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 11:15:05AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
    On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 10:59:30AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
    I would like to do some last minute changes to the linux package
    # Drop special case use of rcX as abi name

    While having the ability to distiguish between different RC, it changes
    the package names every time.

    Or should we just go for 0? This would also remove the ordering
    weirdness a lot of people experienced.

    Bastian

    --
    "Life and death are seldom logical."
    "But attaining a desired goal always is."
    -- McCoy and Spock, "The Galileo Seven", stardate 2821.7

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  • From Salvatore Bonaccorso@21:1/5 to Bastian Blank on Sat Oct 29 10:10:01 2022
    Hi Bastian,

    On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 03:27:24PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
    On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 11:15:05AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
    On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 10:59:30AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
    I would like to do some last minute changes to the linux package
    # Drop special case use of rcX as abi name

    While having the ability to distiguish between different RC, it changes
    the package names every time.

    Or should we just go for 0? This would also remove the ordering
    weirdness a lot of people experienced.

    So instead of having linux-image-6.1.0-rc2-amd64 (for version
    6.1~rc2-1~exp1) that would have been linux-image-6.1.0-0-amd64 and so
    sorting before linux-image-6.1.0-1-amd64 once we go to an unstable
    upload with ABI 1, correct?

    Your suggestion sounds like a sensible idea. The distinguishing about
    the rc releases would be easier if we retain the former variant, but I
    assume concerns for those experimental targeting uploads is less of an
    issue.

    Ben, opinions on it?

    Regards,
    Salvatore

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