On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 09:12:04PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 22:56:02 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 09:46:50PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > Would you agree that this is a bug ? > > Can you tell me what's broken? > Loading new modules on an old kernel might fail. I don't think this is > new, if you want an image that works across point releases you need one > that has all the kernel module udebs on it. Yeah, I thought that. However I wonder why that is. Where's the ABI boundary? So it's "just" fixed for some set of symbols known to be used by external modules? And the symbols used by the kernel udebs can change at every time? Currently we only ship udebs on CD images, which in turn cannot sanely be PXE booted, AFAIK. I guess we can then conclude that keeping the old installer binaries doesn't actually help anybody. Not even keeping those of r0. We should keep the old sources around in squeeze-r0 though. For all of them. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- .''`. Philipp Kern Debian Developer : :' : http://philkern.de Stable Release Manager `. `' xmpp:phil@0x539.de Wanna-Build Admin `- finger pkern/key@db.debian.org
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