Bug#593683: linux-2.6 - images does not conflict with pre-policy versions of bootloaders

[Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:07:05PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 12:02 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > The images have to conflict against versions of the bootloaders not
> > supporting installation on its own.
> How would that help?

As always, the packages are upgraded before the kernel and can work
their magic.

>                       It's likely to cause the bootloader to be removed.

No, it does not. Upgrade is always prefered over removal.

> linux-base and linux-image-* will warn the user on upgrade if they need
> to upgrade the bootloader package or set postinst_hook.

No, they do not.

Bastian

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