Bug#736277: linux-image-3.12-0.bpo.1-kirkwood: Upgrade makes SheevaPlug unbootable.
On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 10:30 +0100, Raúl Sánchez Siles wrote:
> Hello:
>
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:01:16PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > This was http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=731345 which
> > was fixed in flash-kernel 3.12.
> >
> > Balint uploaded f-k 3.12 to backports this morning, it is in the
> > relevant new queue: https://ftp-master.debian.org/backports-new.html
>
> Thank you very much for this.
> >
> > Closing this bug.
> >
>
> Besides flash-kernel (>= 3.12) is needed to get
> linux-image-3.12-0.bpo.1-kirkwood working, this bug was about making linux
> upgrades smooth. May I suggest that next kirkwood linux-image package depends on
> flash-kernel (>= 3.12).
There is no hard dependency from the kernel on flash-kernel because it
is platform specific whether flash-kernel is necessary.
We've recently been discussing adding a Suggests, I've not thought about
how versioned Suggests would work. A versioned Breaks or Conflicts might
be more appropriate for the situation.
The worst case would be apt etc deciding to remove flash-kernel
altogether, for example on a platform without this particular issue
(i.e. where it would have worked fine).
Ian
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