On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 15:54 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > [keeping debian-kernel] > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 08:51:37AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Marc Haber wrote: > > > > > Why was a new tg3 introduced in a point release kernel in the first > > > place? > > > > * tg3,broadcom: Backport changes up to Linux 2.6.38 (Closes: #627705) > > - Add support for BCM5717, BCM5719, BCM57765 > > - Add support for BCM50610M and BCM5241 PHYs > > - Fix support for BCM5755 > > Why was this done in a point release? I always thought that Debian > stable means Debian stable. Other packages are forbidden to introduce > new functionality into a stable release as well. Wrong, new hardware support has been allowed for many releases. > In this case, the change has introduced a (bad!) regression. This must > not happen. I didn't see any report from you after the (repeated) calls for testing the point release. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings No political challenge can be met by shopping. - George Monbiot
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