Currently, the linux source package builds linux-doc-xx.yy.zz, and linux-meta builds linux-doc which Depends: linux-doc-xx.yy.zz. I suggest that this be changed, such that linux-doc-xx.yy.zz be renamed to linux-doc, and be provided by the latest version of the linux source package.
This would be much simpler, eliminating the need for a metapackage and a new binary package with each major kernel version. Instead, there would just be a "linux-doc" package which contained the documentation for the current version of the linux source package. This would also incidentally fix long-standing bug 247517, which causes linux-doc to be routinely held back by APT during kernel upgrades.
Unlike linux-image packages, there is rarely any need to install older versions of the documentation, and if needed, the older docs are easily available on the web.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun May 31 11:11:04 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=bc555036-0252-42e8-804b-b34dc22bbcd4
MachineType: LENOVO 6465CTO
Package: linux-image-2.6.30-6-generic 2.6.30-6.7
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=305dde78-d20a-4248-aaf4-09447b7c5791 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LC_COLLATE=C
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-6.7-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
SourcePackage: linux
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-6-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 01/21/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 7LETB0WW (2.10 )
dmi.board.name: 6465CTO
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr7LETB0WW(2.10):bd01/21/2008:svnLENOVO:pn6465CTO:pvrThinkPadT61:rvnLENOVO:rn6465CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 6465CTO
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T61
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
This bug was fixed in the package linux - 2.6.30-10.11
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linux (2.6.30-10.11) karmic; urgency=low
[ Amit Kucheria ]
* [Config] Comment splitconfig.pl and misc cleanup
* [Config] Rename all configs to the new naming scheme
* [Config] Splitconfig rework
* [Config] Rename scripts/
* [Config] Fix build system for new config split
* [Config] Run updateconfigs after the splitconfig rework
[ Andy Whitcroft ]
* Revert "SAUCE: Default to i915.modeset=0 if CONFIG_
* [Config] standardise CONFIG_STAGING=y
* [Config] standardise CONFIG_RD_LZMA=y
* [Config] CONFIG_PCI_IOV=y
* [Config] CONFIG_PCI_STUB=m
* [Config] merge kernel configs more agressively
[ Colin Watson ]
* [Config] Run kernel-wedge in $(builddir) rather than at the top level
* [Config] Add support for including firmware in udebs
* [Config] Ship bnx2 firmware in nic-modules udeb
- LP: #384861
[ Luke Yelavich ]
* [Config] ports - Import of ports architectures into kernel packaging
infrastructure
* [Config] ports - Do not update ports kernel configurations by default
* [Config] ports - Disable ABI checking for ports architectures
* [Config] ports - Build drivers in ubuntu sub-directory on powerpc
* [Config] ports - Add control.d/vars.* files for ports architectures
* [Config] ports - Add ports architectures for linux-libc-dev
* [Config] ports - Create powerpc specific message-modules and
block-modules udebs
* [Config] ports - Add configuration files for ports architectures
[ Manoj Iyer ]
* [Config] Enable CONFIG_
- LP: #329864
[ Michael Casadevall ]
* [Config] ports - Fix compression of kernels
[ Stefan Bader ]
* [Upstream] mmc: prevent dangling block device from accessing stale
queues
- LP: #383668
[ Tim Gardner ]
* [Config] Recommend grub-pc in linux-image
- LP: #385741
* [Config] Implement i386 generic and generic-pae flavours
* [Config] ports - Add control info after integrating ports arches
* [Config] Removed auto-generated files from git
* [Config] Added netxen_nic to nic-modules
- LP: #389603
[ Matt Zimmerman ]
* Rename linux-doc-PKGVER to linux-doc and clean up its description
- LP: #382115
-- Tim Gardner <email address hidden> Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:38:26 -0600