FYI. I thought this would end up on d-kernel, but only saw afterwards that horms had reassigned the bug to udev :-) I fully agree with his assessment: this is no way to do upgrades. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: Bug#325484: udev >= 0.060-1 and kernels >= 2.6.12 Date: Monday 29 August 2005 12:21 From: Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl> To: 325484@bugs.debian.org Cc: debian-release@lists.debian.org, Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> On Monday 29 August 2005 11:06, Sven Luther wrote: > > * reboot > > * upgrade udev > > This is definitively not a user-friendly procedure. In effect this means that any user having udev installed will have to put udev on hold. Because of versioned dependencies on udev, this will probably make a lot of other installed packages not upgradable. The kernel is likely going to be upgraded automatically because users will be using the kernel-image-2.6-xxx packages. So we're going to have another release with a very elaborate upgrade procedure in the release notes (which a lot of users, especially desktop users, don't read anyway)? I agree with Sven. This is definitely not user-friendly. If this really does have to happen this way, the user should be somehow presented with instructions to do this properly during the upgrade. Cheers, FJP -------------------------------------------------------
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