Re: Handling of linux-modules-*-2.6 during freeze
Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> writes:
> On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 02:58:47PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
>> Bastian Blank wrote:
>> > For a short-term fix I only see three solutions:
>> > - Continue to upload to unstable, drop virtualbox modules.
>> > - Upload to testing-proposed-updates.
>> > - Let virtualbox-ose into Lenny.
>> None of these look really good to me. Another solution would be a
>> reupload of 1.6.2-dfsg-6 with a higher version than currently in unstable.
>
> This may produce another bunch of problems with the version generation
> in the linux-modules-* packages which I currently don't want to find
> out. It works now, and I'm glad that it works. What I don't want is to
> introduce another variable like epochs just for fun.
In this case I think t-p-u is the best alternative and I agree that if
the version generation code doesn't this support up to now, this is
too late to add it.
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