Please split out patches
Bug #48516 reported by
Norbert Tretkowski
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.15
When downloading linux-source-
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Ubuntu has taken a whole new direction with it's kernel development model. We are syncing everything in a publicly available git tree. This means that there are really no seperate patches, but that doesn't mean you can't single out changesets with git, if you need to.
Previous to dapper, we used the debian/patches/ mechanism, which at that point was the "standard" debian way to handle this. It has become way to cumbersome for our needs, and is really an overhead on maintaining the kernel package.