It's come to my attention that on mips(el), the glibc in sarge is incompatible with the kernel in woody, and the kernel in sarge is incompatible with the glibc in woody. This is an impasse that has to be resolved for sarge's release, so that upgrades from woody to sarge can be supported. The obvious solution is to provide an upgrade kernel directory for these architectures, similar to the one already planned for i386 to support true-i386 machines, but this needs someone to step forward who knows what needs to go into the transition kernel images and test them suitably. Some history on this problem can be found in bug #215273, but there don't seem to be any patches there which apply to 2.4.17/2.4.19, the kernels available on mips/mipsel in woody. Is someone willing to take up this task for sarge? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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