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Package: linux-tree-@version@
Architecture: all
Section: devel
Description: Linux kernel source tree for building Debian kernel images
This metapackage is used as a build dependency of Debian
linux-image packages to prevent a version discrepancy between
the linux-image and corresponding linux-sources packages in the
fast-moving unstable archive. The package's dependency relations
are structured so that a linux-image package's build
dependencies can always be satisfied, even if the linux-source
package that had been used to compile the image has been
superseeded by a newer Debian revision since the last build.
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The package provides a list of virtual packages, corresponding to
Debian revisions of a linux-source package. The Debian
linux-patch contains the information needed to roll back the
current linux-source to any of the revisions identified by the
provided virtual packages. Therefore, the linux-tree package
ensures the availability of the Linux kernel source tree corresponding
to each of the virtual packages listed.
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The package serves no purpose outside of the Debian build and
archive infrastructure.