On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 12:39:35AM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Generally I'm not a fan of external driver snapshots providing a more > recent version than linux-2.6.
At the time of the first upload of this package things were a bit different, what was in the mainline kernel was quite out of date and mostly unserviceable. Almost everybody needed a replacement module back then. > They're a PITA to track security-support-wise > when they get shipped in a stable release, they confuse users and they > sometimes introduce additional bugs due when kernel API changes break things. ... and that's not an exhaustive list of the pain they can be! But I think we've learned a few things about maintaining them and we're better at it now than a few years ago. Not everything that is a useful module for someone belongs in the mainline kernel, and not every module that does has the user resources to keep it maintained in that tree even if they wanted it to be. Concrete suggestions for things you'd especially like to see improve are always welcome... I don't think we're going to be able to avoid this sort of thing completely, and the number I maintain seems to be growing slowly still. > So, I'd recommend to remove wacom-source from sid as well. It's going to be part of the pristine source package whatever we do, but I'll re-evaluate the place for the module source.deb in the grand scheme of things after etch. Best, Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
