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Re: Solving the linux-2.6 firmware issue



On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 08:45:55PM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 05:27:22AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > Did you check for packages that have a dependency or build dependency on 
> > linux-2.6? They'd have to be re-uploaded too...

> we rename the source package, not the binary packages. No need to change
> anything anywhere, we just want a new tarball in the archive :-)

> The only real drawback will be the bugreports getting attached to linux-2.6.18
> instead of linux-2.6 (like we already had with .16). 

That's a big drawback.  Please change the *version* of the package instead
of changing the source package *name*.

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