On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:37:24PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > Jonathan Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > In what situation would the linux-kernel-headers package be needed > > seperate from libc? > > Ths issue is not whether it is needed separately from libc-dev, the > issue is that it comes from a different upstream source and thus is > best handled in a separate source package. This requires it to be > in a different binary package too.
Precisely. The original reason it was separated was because I wanted to maintain a separate set of .patch files for the Debian-local changes to the kernel headers. This way was most convenient. Also, most fixes to the kernel headers do not require glibc to be rebuilt. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer