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LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystemLPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystemPosted Sep 18, 2008 8:25 UTC (Thu) by pkern (subscriber, #32883)Parent article: LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem
One important thing to note (IMHO) is that Ubuntu didn't reuse Debian's kernel packages, at least not in a way they could contribute fixes back to Debian. (Different kernel versions, probably also quite different packaging.)
So if at all they'd need to contribute back to Linux upstream...
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LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem Posted Sep 18, 2008 13:08 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]
It's always seemed rather strange to me that the Ubuntu and Debian kernel teams don't work on a common kernel package.
Ubuntu-Debian shared kernel Posted Sep 18, 2008 15:38 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]
The kernel team makes a major release every three months.
Ubuntu makes a major release every six months. Debian makes a major release about every 18 months or so.
Now do you see why Ubuntu and Debian can't share kernel packages?
Ubuntu-Debian shared kernel Posted Sep 18, 2008 23:25 UTC (Thu) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link] Now do you see why Ubuntu and Debian can't share kernel packages?No. Why can't the kernel package be stabilized the same way other packages are stabilized? Base it off Debian's unstable distribution rather than the stable release.
Ubuntu-Debian shared kernel Posted Sep 19, 2008 13:05 UTC (Fri) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]
Other packages have longer release cycles than the kernel has.
Also, Ubuntu and Debian have different policies about what is allowed to
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