On Feb 20, Helge Kreutzmann <deb...@helgefjell.de> wrote: > I perfectly understand that you cannot handle all kernel combinations > in the wild. But is there a reason you cannot prevent a failure in the > middle of an upgrade instead of halting it before, if everything is > from Debian? Yes: I do not know how to test for the existence of inotify support from a shell script and had no idea that the alpha kernels are broken in this regard. inotify has been required for a long time, you being the first one to notice shows that the alpha port is dead.
> So if the kernel version (from Debian!) used does not yet have this option, > couldn't you use a Breaks clause for it? I assume more recent kernels > do have inotify support? inotify was introduced long before 2.6.32. -- ciao, Marco
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