On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 07:45:22PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > What kind of dummy packages do you think of? An empty one depending on > yaird | initramfs-tools | linux-initramfs-tool > > Would sarge's kernel work with yaird? > cu and- Pretty sure I am missing the whole point - reas If we don't support the use of a sarge kernel when running etch, then the initrd-tools dummy package can really be completely empty. It merely needs to exist to satisfy the old kernel-image's dependency on an initrd-tools package so we don't remove the running kernel-image. We don't need a working initrd-tools package, or any other means of generating a new initrd that works with the old sarge kernel. OTOH, we could just let initrd-tools 0.1.84.1 migrate from sid to etch. That might be the simplest solution. Is this really going to break anything? noah
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