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  • Obsolete information in debian-handbook? (linux-patch-* packages)

    From Samuel Plavec@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, July 30, 2026 00:50:01
    Hello.

    In the context of kernel patching, the Debian Administrator's Handbook
    mentions linux-patch-* packages. I have never heard of packages like
    that, and no such packages appear to exist in any current Debian
    release.

    Is the information in the Handbook obsolete?

    The section in question is here: https://www.debian.org/doc//manuals/debian-handbook/sect.kernel-compilation.en.html#sect.kernel-patch

    Please CC me when replying. Thank you.

    Regards,
    Samuel Plavec

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  • From Samuel Plavec@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, July 30, 2026 11:30:01
    On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 5:49?AM Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
    wrote:
    [...]
    Yeah, there's a lot of old information in the handbook.

    I think the saying goes, "patches welcomed," <https://salsa.debian.org/hertzog/debian-handbook>.

    Thanks. I have submitted a bug report (#1143084). I am not the right
    person to rewrite the section, as I don't have any experience with
    kernel patching.

    --
    Samuel Plavec

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