Bug#888183: libc6: Breaks openvz virtuals again
On 2018-01-23 17:17, James Cloos wrote:
> >>>>> "AJ" == Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> writes:
>
> AJ> This is perfectly normal that you do no get a dialog asking wether you
> AJ> want to upgrade libc6, as your kernel is too old for that.
>
> Not it is not normal. It still should have given that dialog so that I
> could skip libc and its fellows and upgrade what would have worked.
It's exactly what the message does. It stopped the upgrade and prevented
libc6 to be unpacked. That way your system is still usable.
> AJ> 2.6.32 kernels are not supported anymore, you need at least a 3.2 kernel
> AJ> to run buster.
>
> Which is a bug.
No this is not a bug. At some point we can't support ancient kernels
anymore. The bug is that OpenVZ has stopped providing newer kernels,
please complain to them instead.
It's a decision of upstream, so it's nothing specific to Debian at all.
All distributions will be affected. Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSUSE
Tumbletweed also do not support 2.6.32 kernels anymore.
> AJ> I'll add an entry to NEWS so that people get warned *before* trying to
> AJ> upgrade.
>
> *How* will they see it first? I only see package news after I upgrade,
> thanks to listchanges.
Well listchanges is supposed to display you the changes before the
upgrade, so that you can cancel it.
Aurelien
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