Bug#285017: marked as done (kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686: upgrading from v2 to v6 slows down my modem)
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 08:36:24PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> 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.
Yes, time-keyd events in the BTS would be awsome.
--
Horms
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