On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 07:23:10PM +0000, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Pierre Habouzit: > > >> Isn't it risky for partial upgrades from etch ? Shouldn't we wait for > >> lenny+1 to revert this ? > > > > I second that, please don't revert the patch until lenny+1. FWIW I > > believe the release team as a whole wanted the patch to be kept as well, > > but I'll let the other members correct me if I'm wrong. > > What about fixing the etch kernel?
Sigh, could we avoid the same discussion over and over, people are not
supposed (we never asked it in the past, and I see no valid reason to do
so) to update to the last stable point release before upgrading to
stable+1. Moreover we support the fact that people use custom kernels,
or even vanilla ones, that don't have the fix.
FWIW both the kernel and gcc need to have the fix:
- the kernel because it's easy to backport (the patch is almost a one
liner IIRC) and that it's an important fix;
- gcc because we don't expect people to have a fixed kernel for their
lennies.
THe _BEST_ example of that are buildd's that for now run etch (even
some sarge not so long time ago) and have a sid chroot to build. Not
keeping the CLD patch means that we break our own buildd infrastructure.
Yay.
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