On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 09:19:59AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 10:10:55PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 08:10:36PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > To elaborate a bit, the reason why this affects users upgrading from
> > > woody even if they haven't done anything strange to their system is that
> > > if they attempt to upgrade to a sarge kernel-image first, the sarge
> > > kernel-image packages depend on mkvmlinuz, which ships
> > > /etc/kernel/post{inst,rm}.d/mkvmlinuz scripts; thus, kernel-image tries
> > > to run 'run-parts -v' without them doing anything funny to their system,
> > > and without an appropriate versioned dependency on debianutils being
> > > declared.
> > >
> > > s/-v/--verbose/g certainly seems like the simplest fix.
> >
> > Could i also add a versioned dependency in the kernel-images to the first
> > version of debian-utils to have the -v option ? This would mean uploading
> > two
> > full kernel-images (2.4.27 and 2.6.8) and thus probably around a full 24
> > hours
> > of builds and uploads.
>
> You could, but if you're going to upload anyway you might as well just
> use --verbose rather than further complicating the dependency graph.
Well, the point is moot because Manoj already did the upload, but just to
mention that the powerpc kernel packages have no influence on this, since they
take the code directly from kernel-package, and unless i go version-checking
and self-patching it, ...
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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