Re: Bug#571255: Please fix this
On Thu, 13 May 2010, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> The only affect I see this will have is that an installed linux-image meta
> package will be updated. That might get a new kernel installed or not.
If the minimal version is carefully chosen, it will ensure a new kernel is
installed. That's the standard Debian way to have newer kernel
auto-installed and upgraded so we should be able to rely on it for
upgrades.
> But how does that change anything for the system? It does not mean the
> new kernel will be used at all. It does not mean older kernel images
> will be removed. It does not change the kernel the system is currently
> running. It in no way means udev will actually work.
Newer kernels are used by default in grub, sure the user can make a bad
choice but we can't prevent everything.
The current hack was no better in that regard. It just ensured that a
newer kernel was being installed, it had no way to ensure that a good
kernel is going to be used on next boot.
We could improve this further by having grub only display working kernels.
Packages could communicate a minimal kernel version to grub, and grub
could use that information in update-grub.
Cheers,
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