Re: Dropping unversioned kernel links/copies; adding linux-version command

2011-04-01 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Hello, all. I'm not a packager but GRUB2 upstream maintainer and so I'll speak from our point of view. > Dropping unversioned kernel links/copies Go for it. These files are just a nuisance > As I understand it, the main reason for these is to allow boot loaders > to be configured using the unversio

Dropping unversioned kernel links/copies; adding linux-version command

2011-03-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
As you may be aware, the kernel team has been gradually simplifying the maintainer scripts of kernel image packages and removing features that are redundant with hooks. (Note that packages built with make-kpkg or the upstream 'deb-pkg' target already lack these features.) One of those features re