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Bug#513627: marked as done (prepariing for the upgrade section should mention kernel versions.)

Your message dated Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:20:07 +0100
with message-id <20090225152007.GH1980@dedibox.ebzao.info>
and subject line Closing "pending" Lenny release-notes bugs
has caused the Debian Bug report #513627,
regarding prepariing for the upgrade section should mention kernel versions.
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package: release-notes
lenny's libc6 will fail preinst on kernels older than 2.6.8 (Afaict this applies to all architectures except m68k but I could be misreading the script) and on some architectures will fail on higher than that. Depending on the order in which the package manager decides to take action this can leave the dependencies in rather a mess. Recovery from this situation often involves removing a lot of packages to get the dependency state sane and allow the installation of an etch kernel.
While there already is a mention that 2.4 users should upgrade thier kernel first there are two issues with this warning 
1: the user may be using an early 2.6 kernel
2: the section is in the wrong place, this is an issue that needs to be sorted out before starting the upgrade to lenny yet it's mentioned in the middle of the upgrade process.
IMO the preparing for the upgrade section should contain something along the lines of 

Make sure you are on a suitable kernel
Lenny's version of glibc will not work with kernels older than 2.6.8 on any architecture and some architectures have higher requirements. We strongly reccomend that you upgrade to and test an etch 2.6.18 or 2.6.24 kernel or a custom kernel of at least version 2.6.18 before beggining the upgrade process.

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On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 01:31:39PM +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> Quoting "Simon Paillard" <simon.paillard@resel.enst-bretagne.fr>:
>> Can we :
>> - asssume all pending bugs have been commited to SVN ?
>
> Yes.

Closing Lenny release-notes pending bugs, since the relevant patches have been
commited to SVN trunk and are published on line at
http://debian.org/releases/lenny/releasenotes

Sorry for the mass mail.

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Simon Paillard

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