Re: Debian Installer etch RC1 released
On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 03:26:32AM +0000, Oleg Verych wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 12:32:19PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> >> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 04:52:57PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
> >
> >> > There are good chances that Etch will contain 2.6.18, but due to some
> >> > open bugs the Release Candidate 1 of the installer has still 2.6.17.
> >
> >> Because of the sysctl deprecation issue, it might be a good idea to
> >> either consider 2.6.19, or probably a better solution would be to
> >> backport the sysctl undeprecation patches into 2.6.18....
> >
> > Could you please file this as a bug against the linux-2.6 package, at
> > severity: serious if you believe this is something that needs to be
> > considered a release blocker?
>
> Linus was asking about any program with *hard* dependency on this[1]. I
> fail to see one.
The problem isn't as much a *hard* dependency as much as it is a huge
amount of noise in the logs, which gets massively annoying.
> 2.6.19 isn't available yet, has many huge number of changes, testing with
> big masses is far ahead. Also 2.6.18 was delayed and it seems good so
> far.
And I'm didn't necessarily say that we should go with 2.6.18, as much
as it would be a good idea to patch out and spupress the deprecation
warnings in 2.6.18, given that it will be undeprecated in 2.6.19.
- Ted
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