Bug#331391: Re: ftpmaster: Please remove 2.6.8 kernel images

[Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>]

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On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 05:34:36PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> Hi ftpmasters,

Hi Horms,

> After discussion with the d-i team, the 2.6.8 kernel
> can now be removed from the archive. Accordinly, please remove
> the following packages:
> 
> kernel-image-2.6.8-alpha
> kernel-image-2.6.8-amd64
> kernel-image-2.6.8-hppa
> kernel-image-2.6.8-i386
> kernel-image-2.6.8-ia64
> kernel-image-2.6.8-m68k
> kernel-image-2.6.8-s390
> kernel-image-2.6.8-sparc
> kernel-patch-2.6.8-hppa
> kernel-patch-2.6.8-m68k
> kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.8
> kernel-source-2.6.8
> kernel-kbuild-2.6-3
> 
> In addition, the following packages should be removed,
> but they should have been hijacked by linux-2.6, I am not
> sure why this hasn't happened.
> 
> kernel-latest-2.6-alpha
> kernel-latest-2.6-amd64
> kernel-latest-2.6-hppa
> kernel-latest-2.6-i386
> kernel-latest-2.6-s390
> kernel-latest-2.6-sparc

Removing the first list will break the second list, in particular, those
kernel-headers-2.6-subarch packages. So the magical short names for 'latest
kernel headers' will cease to work in unstable then.

Probably you'd want to make linux-2.6 hijack those packages first.
Alternatively, you're going to need to cope with bugreports about broken
kernel-headers-2.6-686 packages etc, or, you want us to remove them
altogether. The last option might be an upgrade problem for people, but I
don't have enough insight in that to make a call about it.

What do you want to do?
 
--Jeroen

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