On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:30:11AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 05:17:16PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > But this is a bug in the kernel source, not in the sparc kernel package. > > Why should it be assigned to the kernel-image-sparc package when it has > > to be fixed in the kernel-source package? > > The kernel-source package does not support any architectures apart > from alpha/i386. That's why we have architecture-specific patch packages > and maintainers. > > The problem cited in this report is sparc-specific and does not affect > other architectures.
Just because the binaries are built somewhere else does not defer the fact that the bug is in the source. He's having a problem building the kernel-source package, and that has to be fixed there, not in kernel-image-sparc. Even if I put a patch in kernel-image-sparc, it doesn't fix his problem. Fact, kernel-image-sparc builds from kernel-source _without_ patches. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/