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Re: Please remove alsa-modules-2.4.27-1*



On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 02:44:10AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:41:08AM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
> > You may know all of this already but in case you don't ...

> > Because of bug #284356 and the fact that kernel-image-2.4.27-1 packages
> > affected by this bug were allowed into sarge, users of sarge and kernel
> > 2.4.27-1 can't load modules that were built for their kernel prior to
> > the symbol change.  E.g., the modules in alsa-modules-2.4.27-1* won't
> > load because of unresolved symbols.  The result of this is that people
> > who have kernel 2.4.27-1 and upgrade to current testing discover to
> > their dismay that they no longer have sound.

> > The solution to #284356 was to abandon 2.4.27-1 and release 2.4.27-2
> > kernels instead.  However, the combinations of 2.4.27-1 kernels with
> > 2.4.27-1 module packages are still available in sarge and are still
> > causing headaches.

> > To alleviate this problem, I request that alsa-modules-2.4.27-1* be
> > removed from sarge.

> Is this an issue with the current version of alsa-modules-2.4.27-1 being
> broken wrt the original 2.4.27-1 ABI, or is it just an issue of the current
> kernel-image-2.4.27-1 packages in testing not conforming to that ABI?  This
> isn't clear from your message.  If the problem is the first of these, then
> removing alsa-modules-2.4.27-1 from testing is of course a reasonable
> solution.  If it's the second, I don't see what good removing the binaries
> will do anybody, and I think the RC bugs should probably be closed anyway in
> that case since the bug is not actually in this package.  (In that case,
> kicking kernel-image-2.4.27-1 out of testing would be more useful, but
> that's obviously not an option yet.)

Also... I know why kernel-image-2.4.27-2 isn't in testing yet, but I don't
see alsa-modules-2.4.27-2 anywhere, even in NEW?

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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