kernel-packages team mailing list archive

[dino99 <499557@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Lucid)
       Status: New => Invalid

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel
Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/499557

Title:
  Kernel packages don't have "Section: kernel", but other packages do

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in linux source package in Lucid:
  Invalid
Status in linux source package in Maverick:
  Invalid
Status in linux source package in Natty:
  Invalid
Status in linux source package in Oneiric:
  Invalid
Status in linux source package in Precise:
  Fix Released
Status in linux source package in Hardy:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  In Ubuntu 9.10, kernel packages have "Section: base". This leads to
  the odd result that in Synaptic, the "Kernel and modules" sections
  contain four packages, none of which are Linux kernels. (drbd8-source,
  linux-firmware-nonfree, batman-adv-source, and batmand-gateway-
  source.)

  In Ubuntu Lucid, apparently the kernel packages have been moved to
  "Section: admin".

      <apw>     UBUNTU: Use section 'admin' rather than 'base'
      <apw> yeah our kernels are in admin now
      ...
      <apw> well cjwatson supplied the patch to change it to admin ... hrm

  This still isn't "Section: kernel". I suggest that either actual
  kernel packages should have "Section: kernel", or there should be a
  policy that no Ubuntu package should.

      <Keybuk> it's probably worth a bug assigned to cjwatson to make a
  decision

  (I'm interested in this to ensure sensible categorization of kernel
  packages in the Ubuntu Software Center.)

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/499557/+subscriptions