On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:26:09AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > reassign 325484 udev > retitle 325484 udev lacks sarge->etch upgrade path > thanks > On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 01:46:49AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > udev >= 0.060-1 and kernels >= 2.6.12 should enter testing at the same > > time. > You have to provide a proper sarge->etch upgrade path. This bug is the > sign of lack this path. Requiring that users reboot to 2.6.12 before installing the new version of udev from etch *is* a valid upgrade path. There were similar upgrade path choices that had to be made for woody->sarge on some archs due to kernel/glibc incompatibilities between versions; the udev upgrade path provided is not really any different than that, and unless someone can show a working implementation for udev that doesn't require this, I don't intend to second-guess Marco on this issue. Of course, we want udev 0.060 and linux-2.6 to be available at the same time in each suite, because dealing with the udev preinst failure is still disruptive -- we want users to install the kernel update *first*. This bug was opened to ensure that. Marco, since it looks like udev is going to be ready to go into testing before linux-2.6, and the breakage of new udev with old kernel is much worse than the breakage of old udev with new kernel, I think it would be a good idea to keep a bug open on udev for right now, even if the kernel maintainers object to having it listed against linux-2.6. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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