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Re: Removal of 2.6.39-bpo



Ram Natarajan schrieb am Wednesday, den 07. March 2012:

> Hi Folks,
> It would be good if there is a clear warning message that backport archives can
> suddenly disappear from the repository without warning. This is to ensure that
> people do not use the backport archives like the stable ones assuming that it
> will be available in the future.
> Here is what happened - I had installed 2.6.39 backport kernel on my machine. A
> few months later, I wanted to build a kernel module and found that
> linux-headers-2.6.39-bpo.2-686-pae has disappeared from the repository. Yes - I
> do know that the latest bpo kernel is 3.2, but it would have been good to warn
> me. I would have, at the least, made a local copy of all the necessary archive
> files.
All files are backupped within snapshot.debian.net. And yes we only support
one kernel version, but this is the case for all debian repos.

Alex
 


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