[Pkg-lustre-maintainers] Status of kernel patch packages

[Yann Dirson]

[this and the following mails are resent versions, my mails did not
make it to the list due to some config problem - sorry for any dups
this may cause]

Since April 2009, kernel-package has no use any more for the
{kernel,linux}-patch-* packages (AFAIK the current recommended way of
patching a kernel is using git).  My understanding was that those
packages should then be simply removed from the archive.  However,
there are still a couple of kernel patch packages in squeeze and sid,
and some of them got recent updates.

So the question is, is it time to request removal of those packages,
or is there any remaining reason not to do so that I missed ?

[CC'd maintainers of the relevant packages]

Best regards,
-- 
Yann