Re: please remove old kernel-source packages

[Horms <horms@debian.org>]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 09:06:51AM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:17:23PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> > I would also like to have kernel-image-sparc-2.2, and
> > kernel-source-2.6.9 and its associated image and patch packages
> > removed. 2.6.9 is dead and 2.6.10 has replaced it.
> 
> Most kernel-image-2.6.10 packages (ppc, s390, hppa, alpha, amd64) are
> stuck in NEW since the beginning of the year, I personally would not
> call this a replacement.

This bug is about getting all the information about new and obsolete
packages together so the ftp-maintainers can fix it up. 
Hopefully they will.

If you have packages that are pending in NEW, please list them here.

> > If you have
> > an architecture for which 2.6.10 is broken, now is your chance to
> > speak up.
> 
> with kernel-source-2.6.10 version 2.6.10-5 amd64 SMP systems got broken.
> I am still investigating, it currently looks like
> 083-x86_64_switch_mm_context_race.dpatch and
> 084-smp_nmi_watchdog_race.dpatch introduced the breakage. 

Is this still broken?

> > Source: kernel-image-2.6.9-amd64
> > Maintainer: Kernel Team
> > Uploader: Frederik Schueler <fschueler@gmx.net>
> > Ack: none
> 
> Yes, it can be dropped. 
> 
> As long als the NEW queue gets finally processed and all 2.6.10 packages
> are added to the distribution.

Understood.

-- 
Horms