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Bug#376771: kernel-image-2.4-sparc32 in unstable is not installable



Package: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-sparc32, ftp.debian.org
Severity: grave
Tags: d-i

It's impossible to do sparc32 installs, and has been for months,
because:

  kernel-image-2.4-sparc32: Depends: kernel-image-2.4.27-3-sparc32 but it is not installable

joey@kodama:~>madison kernel-latest-2.4-sparc
kernel-latest-2.4-sparc |         42 |        stable | source
kernel-latest-2.4-sparc |   42sarge2 | proposed-updates | source
kernel-latest-2.4-sparc |   42sarge2 |       testing | source
kernel-latest-2.4-sparc |   42sarge2 |      unstable | source
joey@kodama:~>madison kernel-image-2.4.27-3-sparc32 
kernel-image-2.4.27-3-sparc32 | 2.4.27-9sarge2 | proposed-updates | sparc
joey@kodama:~>madison kernel-image-2.4.27-2-sparc32
kernel-image-2.4.27-2-sparc32 |   2.4.27-2 |      sarge-r0 | sparc
kernel-image-2.4.27-2-sparc32 | 2.4.27-9sarge1 |        stable | sparc
kernel-image-2.4.27-2-sparc32 | 2.4.27-12+b1 |       testing | sparc
kernel-image-2.4.27-2-sparc32 | 2.4.27-12+b1 |      unstable | sparc

An updated kernel-image-2.4-sparc32 was uploaded to stable and reached
unstable since that version was newer than anyhing in unstable. The new
version was for the -3 abi version of the kernel, which for sparc32, has
for some reason not reached unstable/testing even though it is available
in proposed-updates.

Either the version in proposed-updates should be added to unstable too,
or a new version uploaded. Until this happens, sparc32 installs will
not be possible (unless we finally get a 2.6 kernel that can support sparc32).

-- 
see shy jo

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