Binary demotions of kernel packages

[Tim Gardner]

On 09/24/2010 09:56 AM, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Matthias (doko) has inquired about binary demotions of kernel packages:
>
> http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/component-mismatches.txt
>
> The following link also has additional information:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArchiveAdministration#Component Mismatches and Changing Overrides
>
> Source and binary demotions to universe
> ---------------------------------------
>   * linux-linaro - I suspect we don't want this demoted to universe,
> comments?
>
> Source only demotions to universe
> ---------------------------------
>   * linux-meta-linaro - Again I suspect we don't want this demoted to
> universe, comments?
>
> Binary only demotions to universe
> ---------------------------------
>   * linux-backports-modules-2.6.35 - lbm has never been seeded but
> shouldn't be demoted to universe.
>   * linux-meta (lbm meta packages) - Again, shouldn't be demoted to
> universe
>   * linux-mvl-dove - I suspect we don't want this demoted to universe,
> comments?
>   * linux-ti-omap4 - I suspect we don't want this demoted to universe,
> comments?
>
> Thanks,
> Leann
>
>

The packages that are directly maintained by the kernel team should all 
be in main. I suspect linux-linaro _should_ be in universe since it is 
not strictly subject to SRU criteria and it is not maintained by the 
kernel team.

Steve, Loic - do you have a strong opinion about this?

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com