Bug#624266: linux-image-2.6.38-2-686: Upgrading from 2.6.38-3 to 2.6.38-4 breaks fuse.ko

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 02:40:07AM +0200, Sebastian Schmidt wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 01:29:46AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 01:43:54AM +0200, Sebastian Schmidt wrote:
> > > After booting the newly installed kernel fuse loads fine.
> > 
> > Right, that's what you're supposed to do.
> 
> I'm quite reluctant to reopen this bug, but speaking of supposed to:
> Isn't linux-image-* supposed to either increment the version in the
> package name when the ABI changes

Not when the ABI changes in a backward-compatible way.

> or to *tell* me to reboot?

I think it's pretty obvious that a kernel upgrade is not complete
without a reboot.  But whereas daemon packages will restart the
daemon, I think we should not automatically restart the kernel!

Now I can see that it might be helpful to provide some sort of
reminder that a reboot will be required, but I don't know how best to
do that.  A debconf message might be suitable, but then the
requirement for acknowledgement (in a default debconf configuration)
might just be annoying.  kernel-package used to generate dire
messages and those really were annoying.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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