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Re: Scheduling 2.6.17-1



Joey Hess wrote:
> Bastian Blank wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 04:10:30PM -0600, dann frazier wrote:
> > > The only technical issue is getting the meta packages to play well. I
> > > think rough consensus was to leave the metapackages as-is in
> > > linux-2.6.16 and either 1) drop meta packages from linux-2.6 >= 2.6.17
> > > or 2) create separate metapackages for linux-2.6 (linux-image-2.6-686-sid,
> > > for example).
> > 
> > AFAIK the plan is the following:
> > - linux-2.6 remains the metapackages, the point to the last available
> >   one.
> > - linux-2.6.16 contains no metapackages.
> > - linux-latest-2.6 or so contains the metapackages to match linux-2.6.16
> >   and have to go through t-p-u.
> 
> As mentioned on #debian-boot, this is going to cause a lot of pain for
> d-i. Why not do it dannf's way?

Excuse me, I missed the first point. If the linux-2.6 metapackages are
still in testing and point to the right kenrel for testing, we're good
to go.

-- 
see shy jo

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