On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:23:56AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:50:58PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > From the udev 168-2 changelog:
> >
> > * Earliest kernel release supported raised from 2.6.27 to 2.6.32 due
> > to the usage of accept4(2).
> >
> > So you may want to clean up your packages to remove all code needed for
> > compatibility with older kernels.
>
> There is a world outside of udev.
>
> Hosting places tend to be really slow at the uptake of new kernels, so
> usually you can expect 2.6.26 regardless of whether you run stable, testing
> or unstable in your vserver.
>
> Breaking compatibility just for the sake of breaking, or at most premature
> cleanup, is unnecessary damage.
[...]
Backward-compatibility has a cost, sometimes substantial.
I don't think packages in testing/unstable should be expected to support
any kernel version older than that in stable. It's the same same rule we
apply to any other dependency.
Ben.
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