Re: create new Debian-Kernel project (was: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel)

2003-11-11 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:11:45PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: 'linux' is a perfect name for the package. The tarballs contain that very name. Note that the name is choosen not only to attract the user, but also to catch that who blindly use apt-get source linux. The user wouldn't get

Re: create new Debian-Kernel project (was: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel)

2003-11-11 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h * Jamie Wilkinson [Mon, Nov 10 2003, 06:54:22PM]: The fact of the too generic package name was mentioned before within other arguments against your linux package. IIRC you prefered not to answer to it but refered to an URL which

Re: create new Debian-Kernel project (was: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel)

2003-11-11 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Jamie Wilkinson [Tue, Nov 11 2003, 11:28:43PM]: Note that the name is choosen not only to attract the user, but also to catch that who blindly use apt-get source linux. The user wouldn't get the well-known and good kernel-source packages but something which is under control

Re: create new Debian-Kernel project (was: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel)

2003-11-11 Thread John Hasler
Jamie Wilkinson writes: However, this is the word 'linux'. What else do you think it could possibly refer to? Most people seem to think that 'Linux' is the name for the whole kit and kaboodle: kernel, userland, and everything. They are wrong, but they still will be confused by a package named

create new Debian-Kernel project (was: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel)

2003-11-10 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Jamie Wilkinson [Mon, Nov 10 2003, 06:54:22PM]: The fact of the too generic package name was mentioned before within other arguments against your linux package. IIRC you prefered not to answer to it but refered to an URL which did not contain the answers. 'linux' is a

Re: create new Debian-Kernel project (was: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel)

2003-11-10 Thread viro
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:11:45PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: initrd-on-cramfs fix discuss that, You mean the kludge that craps in fs/block_dev.c? If so, feel free to can it - the proper fix is to switch cramfs_read() to use of pagecache and it's going