Automatic Old Kernel Removal Spec Proposal

[Andreas Schildbach]

Sivan Greenberg wrote:

> I'd like to hear comments feedback and suggestion for this,

Why is it that kernels are given new package names (and thus new 
packages) for new versions, rather than just new package versions? If 
its for being able to comfortably select a kernel to boot: you could 
backgrade to any uploaded package version using apt-get, too.

If the package system wouldn't sort of be abused for kernels, new 
versions would automatically replace the old (installed) version, as it 
is already the case for kernel security fixes.

Can't say anything about the statistics part, other than such a system 
might be reasonable for each kind of package - for example a developer 
might like to know which version of OpenOffice is the most stable.

Regards,

Andreas