Bug#285017: marked as done (kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686: upgrading from v2 to v6 slows down my modem)
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Horms wrote:
> reopen 285017
> thanks
>
> Hi Maximilian,
>
> its still a bug in the 2.4.27 package. It may or may not be fixable.
> And the patch may or may not be appropriate for Sarge.
development wise 2.4 is long dead.
therefor i'm not sure if it's sane to archive all it's bugs.
i don't see much of use.
users wont navigating through the unsorted obscure list of kernel
packages that may affect them.
either way i wont touch the 2.4 side of the bts.
respect your engangement.
> My current preference for handling problems like this,
> is firstly to encourage the user to use a more up to date kernel.
> Secondly downgrading feature requests (which this isn't) to
> wishlist. And lastly ascertianing what if a fix exists,
> and if so either adding it to SVN or marking the bug as +wontfix
> accordingly. +wontfix is also my prefered option for bugs that
> we think are too hard.
as said above i don't see much gain in such a work.
> While I don't like clutter in the BTS, I think closing bugs just
> opens the door for duplicates to be subsequently filed, and
> I'm not sure that helps anyone.
>
> On a related note, your work cleaning out bugs for 2.6.10, 11 and
> other soon to be removed from the archive kernels is excellent.
> I am really pleased about the way that is going. Its something
> that has needed to be done for a while.
thanks for the notice! :)
anyway i'll try to allocate some timeslice for that from time to time.
i have quite an horror for the pile of the kernel metapackage bug.
as those are stable users, you can't help much for those.
but ill try to also sort them.
an expired tag that would close bugs one month later after tagging if the
bug reporter doesn't reappear would be on my highest wishlist now the bts
gets even nicer.
--
maks
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