Bug#751721: Figure out how to deal with ABI changes
Hi Phillip
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:31:25AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
> There are many ways a kernel can be updated on disk that are not
> necessarily triggered by user action.
Debian does not install any automatic update stuff, so it is always user
action.
> Ubuntu claims with every update that there is an unavoidable ABI change.
> I guess that's why. It at least sidesteps this issue if you handle ABI
> changes that way. Of course it also makes d-i more brittle unless you
> keep old ABI versions around and do not decruft them.
Can you provide a course of action to handle this differently? Please
note that currently an ABI name change involves manual action by at
least five entities (kernel-team, ftp-team, release-team, d-i-team and
external modules maintainers). If we want to do that in a faster pace,
we need some automation on the way.
Bastian
Reply to: