Re: Scheduling 2.6.17-1

[dann frazier <dannf@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 06:56:50PM +0200, 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.

fwiw, this doesn't provide a way for people to track the proposed etch
kernel in sid, which may reduce the number of testers of that kernel
prior to migration.

-- 
dann frazier