Package: udev Version: 0.060-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system, will break upgrades from sarge
According to the NEWS entry provided in the udev 0.060-1 package itself, this version of udev is NOT COMPATIBLE with any kernel version prior to 2.6.12. Kernel 2.6.12 has NOT YET been packaged even in sid/unstable, making this package upload completely useless with all current Debian kernels. Even worse, because of the critical function performed by udev, this means that any attempt to upgrade to this package version can be expected to break the whole system *according to the package's own documentation* . Furthermore, because kernel 2.6.12 or later is not included in the sarge release, inclusion of this package version or any other udev not compatible with the kernel versions actually in sarge will cause massive breakage to users upgrading from sarge to etch or etch+1. Thus no udev implementation incompatible with the 2.6.x kernels actually in sarge can be accepted into unstable, testing, frozen or stable until etch+1 has been released. In the eventuality that etch releases as late after sarge as sarge released after woody, this restriction could optionally be relaxed from applying to etch+1 to etch+0. This is nothing new, it is the general release upgrade principles followed by Debian since the 1.1 release. I thus STRONGLY SUGGEST that this package version be removed from the archive and a prior package version reinstated in its place. Furthermore I would advise the ftpadmin to keep a very close eye on future uploads by this maintainer to ensure that such deliberate breakage is not allowed to leave the incoming queue again. >From the chocked Jakob P.S. When the NEWS item in question was displayed by apt-listchanges, I obviously abandoned the upgrade, I thus have no access to the actual contents of the package but a NEWS item declaring the package deliberately broken should be proof enough (at least if the upload date is not April 1). (Irrelevant config information omitted) -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11jbj3.2.10 Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages udev depends on: ii hotplug 0.0.20040329-22 Linux Hotplug Scripts ii initscripts 2.86.ds1-1 Standard scripts needed for bootin ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii makedev 2.3.1-78 creates device files in /dev ii sed 4.1.4-2 The GNU sed stream editor udev recommends no packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
