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Re: Please consider kernel-package 8.134



Hi Manoj,

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 12:20:02AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>         There have been two bug fixes that should be considered
>  important:
>  307097: This typo affected kernel patches that were installed in a
>          manner such that they would only be considered for one
>          particular version of the kernel. This is an uncommon setup
>          (most kernel patches handle version matching themselves), but
>          it has hit the users of at least one versioned kernel patch
>          already. 

>  304140: This buggy deletion of dangling symbolic links in the
>          postinst was causing  the symlinks for /vmlinuz and the
>          initrd's to be wrongly deleted if link_in_boot was set to be
>          true.  While this is an unusual option, there are a number of
>          people who do not like to clutter up / with kernel symlinks,
>          and these people shall be impacted by this bug.

> 	If you have any doubts about this version, we can wait ands
>  see for the customary 10 days in unstable to see how this fares.

Approved, subject to the standard 10 day waiting period.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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