> On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Alexey Salmin <alexey.sal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I think it's reasonable for package maintainers to check compatibility >> with the kernel from the >> distribution they upload package to. Especialy here when package is >> newer then kernel driver. >> It's of course harder to supervise the situation when kernel pass >> ahead of user-space packages >> but it's also possible. > > In general I agree that user-space tools should not be uploaded until there is > a kernel that can work with them. The fact that I made a filesystem with > mkfs.btrfs and can't mount it is obviously not ideal. Of course with this > type of change if the upload of the btrfs-tools had been delayed so that the > kernel got in first then we would STILL have had the same situation (I > believe that there was neither forward nor backward compatibility).
I just mean that it's easier for package maintainers to see if their upload breaks compatibility than observe that a kernel update broke something. Of course both situations are bad. Alexey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
