Re: What to do with "duplicate" kernels?

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Andreas Barth wrote:
[snip]
> > > Sometimes there are more than one kernel version on a specific
> > > architecture in testing.
> > > http://people.debian.org/~aba/merkel/kernels.txt lists for which this
> > > is current valid (also by running ~aba/exec-k-p kernel-image-2.4 on
> > > merkel):
> > > remove kernel-image-2.4.21-s390/2.4.21-2
> > > remove kernel-patch-2.4.19-mips/2.4.19-0.020911.8
> 
> > This should be Version 2.4.19-0.020911.9, I think. AFAIK the maintainer
> > will request removal when 2.4.26 goes in testing, which is likely to
> > happen in 6 days.
> 
> kernel-image-2.4.21-1-s390 |   2.4.21-2 |       testing | s390
> kernel-image-2.4.25-1-s390 |   2.4.25-2 |       testing | s390
> 
> Why should .21 stay there?

AFAIK 2.4.21 is the newest IBM-blessed source, but the idea is to sync
up with the other 2.4 kernels for sarge anyway. For more information,
ask the s390 kernel maintainers.

> Same question:
> kernel-image-2.4.19-r4k-ip22 | 2.4.19-0.020911.8 |       testing | mips
> kernel-image-2.4.19-r5k-ip22 | 2.4.19-0.020911.8 |       testing | mips
> kernel-image-2.4.25-r4k-ip22 | 2.4.25-0.040415.1 |       testing | mips
> kernel-image-2.4.25-r5k-ip22 | 2.4.25-0.040415.1 |       testing | mips
> 
> Why should .19 stay there?

2.4.25 is the first version which works again on all supported
subarchitectures, and has some known non-fatal flaws. 2.4.26 fixes
those. However, 2.4.25 is used for d-i rc1, and will have to stay
around until rc1 becomes obsolete.

Btw, the same source also builds mipsel kernels, so your list
is incomplete.


Thiemo