On Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 06:24:43PM +0100, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > a version with this split was uploaded to experimental 3 weeks ago and I just > got around testing it. After having spent the day with fixing the software in > and outside of Debian that I maintain which broke after the split of modules > and dtbs into other packages I wonder:
What software are you talking about? The user package interface remains a dependency against linux-image-*. I don't think we have any other interfaces documented, do we? > What is the motivation of the split other than "other distros do it"? The > changelog only says "Split kernel modules into own package" but doesn't give a > rationale. Is one written down somewhere? Actually you quoted the reasons: > > > The goals are: > > > - Replace extra cloud build with stripped down variant of the normal > > > build > > > - Prepare for pre-built initramfs and/or UKI So in the future we wikll have n:m linux-binary vs linux-modules. Bastian -- Bones: "The man's DEAD, Jim!"
