Re: Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 08:37:51PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> 
> >> >> The biggest problem here is that will looks like we'll support all
> >> >> those combinations regarting security and also bug fixing and this
> >> >> won't be true... that can be used if it stay just as a sid resource...
> >> >
> >> > Since the problem of moving versions only appears during the development phase
> >> > of a release, not once it is released, this is indeed no problem at all.
> >> >
> >> > Please go ahead and try to do a beta3 netboot install right now, it will have
> >> > trouble since we can't have 2.6.15 or whatever it was, and 2.6.17 kernel
> >> > modules in the archive at the same time. Not easily anyway.
> >> 
> >> Yes. I know it'll fail.
> >> 
> >> I see the problem you're trying to address ... I just not sure if it's
> >> the right way to solve it.
> >
> > Do you see another way ? I mean, sure doing nothing and ignoring the issue is
> > another way to address the issue, but somehow that is not very satisfying.
> 
> Maybe the installer kernel would have the release version on the
> package name and then it wouldn't be remove from the suite until the
> next version. e.g:
> 
>  - linux-image-d-i-4.0-rc1

So you prefer ugly hacked solution over cleant and neat ones ? 

> It would make sure that all udebs would be available until we move
> the:
> 
>  - linux-image-d-i-4.0-rc2
> 
>  or 
> 
>  - linux-image-d-i-4.0-release

Yeah. You know we stopped doing this kind of stuff for the kernel package over
a year ago, and probably for a reason, don't you think ? 

> In that way we don't need to support a lot of images but just the
> current and the next one while doing the development on sid. Keep on
> mind that we don't have two major kernel versions anymore and then it
> would be easy to do. It would work basically as other core components
> like GCC or XEN.

Yeah, like the 3-4 gcc versions we keep around.

This doesn't solve the problem of older d-i images though. But we will see.

Friendly,

Sven Luther
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