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Re: Bug#816500: linux-tools: should not migrate to testing before the corresponding src:linux



On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 12:31 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Source: linux-tools
> Version: 4.4-4
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi,
> 
> new major upstream releases (e.g. 4.4) of src:linux and src:linux-tools 
> should migrate together to testing. Right now src:linux-tools 4.4-4 is
> already in testing, which doesn't look too useful to me without
> src:linux 4.4.x-y.

This should have been prevented by the fact that it makes linux-perf
uninstallable in testing (it depends on linux-perf-4.3).  Cc'ing the
release team to comment on why it happened anyway.

> Does any of the binary packages built from linux-tools have a dependency
> on something from src:linux that could be made versioned?
> Or add a linux-tools-dummy package which Depends: linux-source-X.Y

The existing dependencies between binaries generated by linux-latest,
linux and linux-tools have always seemed sufficient to prevent this
happening in the past.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest.

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