Bug#572376: linux-base: Please use UUID for swap, not LABEL

[Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 04:08:36AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 13:50 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> [...]
> > > A few references I found:
> > > 
> > > http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg478822.html
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=364441
> > > 
> > > Does all of this provide sufficient reason, or should I provide more?
> > > :)
> > 
> > There is one argument you missed: consistency with new installations,
> > which do use UUIDs.  So I will consider doing this now, but it's quite a
> > lot of work.
> 
> Well, I've now done the work and committed it to svn.  You can test it
> now if you want ('make -f debian/rules.real install-linux-base' will
> build just that one binary) or wait for the next experimental upload.

Thanks!  I'll try the experimental upload as soon as it appears.

By the way, in trying to convert things over to UUIDs, you might want to
take a look at uswsusp; see bug 572729.

- Josh Triplett