From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759595AbcINHLm (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Sep 2016 03:11:42 -0400 Received: from dd34104.kasserver.com ([85.13.151.79]:48286 "EHLO dd34104.kasserver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752289AbcINHLl (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Sep 2016 03:11:41 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-SenderIP: 46.223.1.35 User-Agent: ALL-INKL Webmail 2.11 In-Reply-To: References: <1473032617-21914-1-git-send-email-public_timo.s@silentcreek.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH] builddeb: Update a few outdated and hardcoded strings From: "Timo Sigurdsson" To: riku.voipio@linaro.org Cc: mmarek@suse.com, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-Id: <20160914071137.6EF4A6C80558@dd34104.kasserver.com> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:11:37 +0200 (CEST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Riku Voipio schrieb am 13.09.2016 10:22: > On 5 September 2016 at 02:43, Timo Sigurdsson > wrote: >> The builddeb script has some hardcoded references to linux version 2.6 >> which is ancient. Use a variable instead in order to keep in sync with >> new releases and avoid the need to manually update this. In addition, >> change the copyright notice to include the year 2016. > > I think we can just drop all the "Provides" lines, the official debian > packages don't provide > anything, and nothing depends on these provided virtual packages either. As far as Debian is concerned, that's true. However, Ubuntu's linux packages have these "Provides" lines. But as I haven't used Ubuntu in a while, I don't know if these are actually required for anything on Ubuntu systems. I'd be fine with any decision (keep or drop), I just don't wanna make the call to drop them as I'm not aware about the implications on other Debian based distributions. Regards, Timo