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Re: Advice on how best to handle non-backwards compatibility



Martin Pitt wrote:

| My personal feeling is that a debconf note is appropriate here; at
| least I would like to see one.

But preferably only ever on an upgrade, and certainly never if you're
running a 2.6 kernel.  Otherwise we'll end up with a repeat of the
binutils fiasco that you see when installing Woody - an ominous-looking
message that is exceedingly unlikely to affect you.

Cameron.

On an anti-Debconf crusade tonight ;-)



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