From: waldi@debian.org   
      
   On Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 06:24:43PM +0100, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues   
   wrote:   
   > a version with this split was uploaded to experimental 3 weeks ago and I just   
   > got around testing it. After having spent the day with fixing the software in   
   > and outside of Debian that I maintain which broke after the split of modules   
   > and dtbs into other packages I wonder:   
      
   What software are you talking about?  The user package interface remains   
   a dependency against linux-image-*.  I don't think we have any other   
   interfaces documented, do we?   
      
   > What is the motivation of the split other than "other distros do it"? The   
   > changelog only says "Split kernel modules into own package" but doesn't give   
   a   
   > rationale. Is one written down somewhere?   
      
   Actually you quoted the reasons:   
      
   > > > The goals are:   
   > > > - Replace extra cloud build with stripped down variant of the normal   
   > > >   build   
   > > > - Prepare for pre-built initramfs and/or UKI   
      
   So in the future we wikll have n:m linux-binary vs linux-modules.   
      
   Bastian   
      
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