severity 403974 important thanks On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 09:39:54PM +0100, Thomas Weinbrenner wrote: > James Westby wrote: > > On (17/02/07 19:51), Thomas Weinbrenner wrote: > > [...] > > > But if it is meant to help building modules for other kernel, then it > > > should support them and this bug should be more severe than merely > > > "wishlist". > > [...] > > The fact that you can't build from the loop-aes-source against newer > > kernels is regrettable, but does not warrant a bug of severity serious > > I'm afraid. > > All right, but shouldn't it be at least "normal" (if not "important", > after all, if you build your own kernel, you usually want the newest)? > > A "minor" severity level would be a "a problem which doesn't affect the > package's usefulness" and since this affects the packages usefulness it > should be more severe than that.
Agreed. I plan to build build loop-aes v3.1e + patches this coming weekend and upload it to experimental. Jari has already hinted at a new upstream release, and there are some patches for newer kernel releases. I think it will be useful to maintain newer versions in experimental this way for some time, at least until the time unstable is open for post-etch uploads again. The main reason the package hasn't been updated to the latest upstream version (from my perspective) is that loop-aes is now used in partman-crypto as part of debian-installer; updating it would have meant more work and possible delays for d-i RC1 and RC2. Now that we're basically in freeze preparing for release of etch, (barring any unforseen troubles) etch will likely stay at and release with loop-aes version v3.1d. I hope that we can maintain a version in backports.org for use with newer kernels though. cheers, Max -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
