Bug#231538: Bug status report?

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>]

GOTO Masanori wrote:
> At Tue, 9 Mar 2004 05:30:34 -0500,
> Nathanael Nerode wrote:
>
> > What progress has been made and what still needs to be done?
> >
> > Apparently current glibc now has the checking code in glibc to prevent it from 
> > being upgraded until *after* the kernel is upgraded (to 2.4.24 or 2.6.0).
>
>
> I'm sorry that I don't still put the checking code.  I put it after
> checking build and test.
OK, great.  Given the information below, it seems to me that this bug 
can be closed after you do that.


> > However, as Karolina Lindqvist wrote:
> >
> > > You can't install 2.4.24 on a i386 system, since it depends on initrd-tools 
> > > (>= 0.1.48) and 
> > > modutils (>= 2.4.19) which are not in woody. The SID versions of those 
> >
> > require 
> >
> > > the new libc6, which in turn require the new kernel running. So how to 
> > > upgrade to that kernel on a 386?
> >
> > Andreas Barth wrote:
> >
> > > You add first
> > > deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable initrd-tools module-init-tools
> > > to your apt.sources-list and dist-upgrade only modutils and
> > > initrd-tools. Afterwards, kernel, and afterwards the normal upgrade to
> > > sarge.
> >
> > Obviously this is not really an acceptable upgrade path from woody to sarge!
> > We do want to ensure an straighforward upgrade path from woody on real i386s. 
>
>
> AFAIK this problem was fixed.  kernel-image-2.4.24-2-686
> (2.4.24-2woody.1) is now available on woody.  The thing which user
> needs to do is only updating kernel 2.4.24, before upgrading to sarge.
Oh, OK!  :-)  That's good then.  :-)

> > Andreas Barth wrote:
> >
> > > Well, to be plain, I think a more recent modutils and initrd-tools
> > > should be added to woody with the next point release, and also a new
> > > kernel image, both for the boot floppies and in the archive, that
> > > emulates 486-opcodes on 386. Also this should be IMHO be noted in
> > > the Release-notes.
> >
> > Is this the plan?  This would require new packages in the next point release 
> > of woody, before sarge comes out, but I don't see that any progress has been 
> > made on that.
>
>
> Well, I agree that release notes should describe about 386 problem
> (386 processor machine needs to update its kernel 2.4.24 before
> upgrading sarge).  But... who should we report to?
Hmm.  debian-release@lists.debian.org?  I suppose someone there is 
responsible for release notes.

> Regards,
> -- gotom