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Re: Upgrading to current udev is disastrous if not on kernel 2.6.12



On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 12:33:12PM +0200, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote:

> Packages should not depend on any kernel, since many people run their
> own. However, I just don't understand why the package has been published
> at all, since even in experimental there is no 2.6.12.

Because people already using 2.6.12 need it, since the previous udev
(more precisely, libsysfs that udev uses) had a bug which was exposed by
the 2.6.12 kernel.

Gabor

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