Accepted linux-restricted-modules-2.6.10 2.6.10-2 (source)

Jerry Haltom jhaltom at feedbackplusinc.com
Fri Jan 7 13:17:41 CST 2005


Are there any documents anywhere explaining why the modules were moved
into this linux-restricted-modules package vs how Debian had them, in
separate packages. (with a linux-restricted meta package maybe?)

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 18:21 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 06:06:25PM +0000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > 	* The fact that 2.6.10-1 is meaningless -- it doesn't tell you
> > 	  whether you have 1.0.6111 or 1.0.6629 of nvidia, or whether
> > 	  you have 3.14.6 or 8.8.25 of fglrx.
> 
> We could still autogenerate the version number even if it isn't the same
> as the version in the changelog, couldn't we?
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]
> 
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Jerry Haltom <wasabi at larvalstage.net>
Feedback Plus, Inc.




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