Re: Please remove alsa-modules-2.4.27-1*
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 02:44 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > 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?
The latter.
> 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
Well, as you say, the practical advantages may not be so great, since
removing alsa-modules-2.4.27-1* from the archive won't result in these
packages being removed from systems that already have the packages
installed.
However, removing alsa-modules-2.4.27-1* from the archive will result in
people not having broken kernel-image+alsa-modules combinations if they
are installing sarge afresh. What removing alsa-modules-2.4.27-1* does
do is make sarge more consistent with itself than it currently is.
All the *2.4.27-1* packages have to be yanked eventually and since
alsa-modules-2.4.27-1* are not serving any useful purpose in the archive
now (and has the potential to confuse people), I'd say they should be
yanked now.
> 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?
We haven't done an alsa-modules-2.4.27-2* release yet. That shouldn't
affect the decision about whether or not to remove
alsa-modules-2.4.27-1, though.
--
Thomas Hood <jdthood@aglu.demon.nl>
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