On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:18:00AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > The whole purpose of kernel-headers is to provide one, most stable, kernel > interface for the distro to build against. The idea was that, by choosing > the kernel to compile against you have the best chance of things working > correctly on other kernels.
That is the raison d'etre for kernel-headers. However, the new per-image kernel-headers exist solely for the benefit of module builders. > Creating a kernel-header for "each flavour" completely ignores and > defeates the reason that kernel-headers exist! Huh? There is still a kernel-headers package for the glibc maintainer to use. In fact, it's exactly the same as before. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt