Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> (25/06/2012): > > Questions: > > A. if we build a debian-installer package against the old linux kernel > > ABI, and then images with that debian-installer, will the installer > > be able to install a kernel with the old ABI to begin with, *and* a > > kernel with the new ABI in a few days when it reaches testing? Or > > will the images be broken when that happens? (added debian-kernel to > > Cc accordingly). > > > The netboot and businesscard at least will be broken, AIUI, because they > get udebs from the network and those need to match the d-i kernel. OTOH > they'll probably be broken by non-ABI-changing kernel changes anyway, so > maybe that doesn't matter. For the other images I don't believe there > should be a problem, as they already include the appropriate module > udebs and install the final kernel through the linux-image-foo > metapackages. Thanks for your feedback. Here's my current plan: - build/upload debian-installer after tonight's britney and following dinstall runs. - ask the release team to freeze all udeb-producing packages, so that we can retain control over what goes in from this point on. - check for failures on the buildds, fix them. - wait for the kernel to be ready/to migrate to testing. - upload a new debian-installer pulling that kernel's udebs. - coordinate with debian-cd for images. - call for tests. - do some steps again if there are big failures. - release beta 1 otherwise. We still need to arrange something about the release announce. Any takers? TL;DR: - 1st d-i upload less than 12 hours from now. - udeb freeze. - 2nd upload when the kernel is ready, hopefully some time next week. Mraw, KiBi.
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