Re: RFC: Clean-up of old kernel ABIs at point releases
On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 05:49:08PM +0100, Adam Barratt wrote:
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>Hi,
>
>When the kernel ABI version has been increased between two point
>releases, we currently remove the old versions as part of the point
>release, to avoid carrying cruft.
>
>This has unfortunate side-effects for a number of use cases, including
>CI setups which immediately stop working as the packages they attempt
>to install no longer exist in the archive.
>
>If we were instead to change this policy to, for example, remove the
>packages after the subsequent point release instead, can anyone see any
>problems that this might cause, whether for tooling, tools or anything
>else?
I don't expect to see any problems directly on the -cd front; IIRC
debian-cd will just ignore all but the most recent version of the
packages involved.
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