On Sat, 2025-05-03 at 17:40 +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Quoting Ben Hutchings (2025-05-03 16:46:02) > > reform-tools installs a kernel hook under /usr/share/kernel. As you know, > > this currently only works with unofficial kernel packages. > > > > The official kernel packages should support this in trixie, but I > > still do not want packages to rely on this until *after* the trixie > > release. There is no way to depend on "a new enough kernel package" > > other than through the requirement that systems are fully upgraded to > > one stable release before upgrading further. > > > > If you are not convinced by that, then there is another problem for > > partial upgrades: if debianutils is not upgraded to at least version > > 5.21 then this hook will cause kernel package installation to fail as > > it will try to pass 2 hook directories to run-parts which is not > > supported. So you should add a versioned dependency on debianutils if you > > leave the hook under /usr/share/kernel for the trixie release. > > the package also ships a symlink in /etc/kernel. Is that not enough?
That is backward-compatible, which addresses my first objection. However you still need the versioned dependency on debianutils. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
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