Re: Debian Kernel Group Meeting
I've read the notes posted by Vincent Sanders about the meetings at the
Plumber's Conference. I saw the references to automated testing and
uploads of 2.6.31 to experimental in the notes about Session 4, but I
saw no comments about the loss of kernel-archive.buildserver.net.
Has the kernel team decided to no longer make DEBs available for
upcoming versions of kernels? Or will the 'experimental' distribution
be used to make such kernels available?
I was bitten by a kernel bug last year that caused the kernel to hang
during boot on 2 of my 3 machines. I took my issue upstream, and spent
the entire month of August 2008 helping the kernel developers to test
code, but the fixes arrived too late for the 2.6.26 and 2.6.27 series.
After 2.6.25, no unpatched kernel would would boot on my two "server"
machines until 2.6.28 was released.
I appreciated the efforts of the Debian Kernel Team to make advanced
releases of kernel packages available, and was sorry to see
'kernel-archive' go away. Since then, I have been testing upstream
kernels using git about once or twice a month, just to make sure nothing
like the ordeal of August 2008 ever happens again.
I was surprised that your notes from the Plumber's Conference do not
seem to mention the loss of 'kernel-archive' at all. Was this not
discussed at all? Is 'kernel-archive' gone permanently?
Sincerely,
Dave W.
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