Bug#571255: Bidirectional incompatibility means co-installable udevs needed

2010-10-04 Thread Ian Jackson
I wrote: > You mean that packages which say Depends: udev (>= new version) might > find that the old version was still in use ? Yes, that's true. Of course I mean packages which currently say that and which, with coinstallable udevs, would say Depends: udev-new-version. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Bug#571255: Bidirectional incompatibility means co-installable udevs needed

2010-10-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 05, Ian Jackson wrote: > Do you disagree with any part of the analysis in my message ? I just do not believe that your proposed solution can be implemented in a practical and mainteanable way. If you have time to spend implementing this then I recommend you forward-port support for the old

Bug#571255: Bidirectional incompatibility means co-installable udevs needed

2010-10-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Marco d'Itri writes ("Re: Bug#571255: Bidirectional incompatibility means co-installable udevs needed"): > On Oct 04, Ian Jackson wrote: > > If indeed the old udev doesn't work with the new kernel, and the new > > udev doesn't work with the old kernel, and

Bug#571255: Bidirectional incompatibility means co-installable udevs needed

2010-10-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 04, Ian Jackson wrote: > Steve writes: Sorry Steve, I should have answered your email... I promise I will do this ASAP (short summary: you are probably right). > If indeed the old udev doesn't work with the new kernel, and the new > udev doesn't work with the old kernel, and this situatio

Bug#571255: Bidirectional incompatibility means co-installable udevs needed

2010-10-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve writes: > Third, you write that the old udev *also* won't work with the new > kernel. Can you be more specific? In my testing, this also works > fine; I wasn't able to identify anything out of place when rebooting > to a 2.6.32 Debian kernel with a lenny udev. If indeed the old udev doesn'