Bug#610475: bump minimum kernel version
reassign 610475 eglibc
severity 610475 wishlist
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On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 04:54:31PM -0500, Darcoux Christine wrote:
> Package: eglibc-source
> Version: 2.11.2-8
>
> As eglibc needs to be updated, it is time to review the minimum
> required kernel version for eglibc. Enabling a newer kernel will
> allows glibc to have less workarounds compiled in. This comes at the
> obvious cost of not having support for older kernels so a tradeoff is
> needed...
>
> The minimum version supported by eglibc is defined by the
> MIN_KERNEL_SUPPORTED which as value 2.6.18 in debian/sysdeps/linux.mk.
> One needs to make a lot of changes in the default installation to run
> Debian on such an old kernel.
This is always what we do after a stable version of Debian is released.
> As udev >= 147 requires a minimum kernel version of 2.6.27 and is not
> tested with versions older than 2.6.31 (cf
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/hotplug/msg04507.html), I am going to
> suggest to follow Fedora 14 which moved from 2.6.18 to 2.6.32.
>
This reasoning is for Fedora, it doesn't apply to Debian. Not everybody
runs udev, especially when you use chroot. We must be able to run a
wheezy/sid chroot on a lenny installation, so the new minimum kernel
version will be 2.6.26.
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