Bug#364996: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6: please add apus subarch, apus is currently kind-of using the non-working 2.4.27 stuff still
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:04:31PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:58:56PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:49:56PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > I'd be happy to, but there's no linux-image-2.6.* package for apus yet.
> > > Looking at the kernel trunk in svn, perhaps apus needs to be added to
> > > flavours: in arch/powerpc/defines?
> >
> > No. APUS is marked as broken upstream since a long time.
>
> So what ? Why do you think we have had an apus patch in until 2.6.15.
>
> I need to look over the apus patch, and port it to 2.6.16, didn't have time to
> do this yet though, help is welcome. prep is also broken now anyway, and needs
> fixing. The 2.6.15->2.6.16 migration clearly did bring a lot of trouble and
> work. That said, only 2.6.15 is in testing for now, so i wonder the wisdom of
> building d-i images based on 2.6.16.
The daily d-i builds are based on unstable, not testing; if we didn't do
that it would be much more difficult to qualify installer packages in
unstable for inclusion into testing. Essentially we'd just end up with a
broken testing before we realised the problems.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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