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linux-image-2.6-* dependency issues [was Re: Business card iso]



On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:11:48AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 06:37:47PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:

> >> ~$ apt-cache policy linux-image-2.6.20-1-686
> >> linux-image-2.6.20-1-686:
> >>   Installed: 2.6.20-3
> >>   Candidate: 2.6.20-3
> >>   Version table:
> >>  *** 2.6.20-3 0
> >>         500 http://ftp.ro.debian.org sid/main Packages
> >>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> >>
> >> Strange thing is that linux-image-2.6-686 doesn't depend on it so I had 
> >> to select it specificaly.
> > 
> > I wondered why all these people have been talking about 2.6.20 stuff
> > when my up-to-date sid is still at .18. 
> > 
> > Is that a bug of l-i-2.6-*?
> > 
> 
> Andrew, see my other message.  It boils down to:  I need 2.6.21 because
> it fixes a timing issue that affects this computer.
> 

that doesn't answer my question:

Is it a bug of l-i-2.6-* that it doesn't depend on the latest kernel
(i.e. 2.6.20-3). AIUI, that package should always depends on the
latest 2.6 kernel, but apparently, it doesn't

A

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