Bug#571255: Completely trashes dist upgrade

2010-09-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 13, Julien Cristau wrote: > FWIW I partially downgraded a squeeze machine to lenny's X, kernel and > gnome a while back (keeping squeeze udev), and the machine seemed to > boot and work fine. Admittedly I only used it for about an hour or so > before upgrading again, but that makes me won

Bug#571255: Completely trashes dist upgrade

2010-09-13 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 05:09:18 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > I know the intention of this preinst check, but this result is completely > unacceptable. > > Unless a solution is found to reliably detect a kernel upgrade, I'd suggest > you > remove the preinst check, add as NEWS.Debian entry to u

Bug#571255: Completely trashes dist upgrade

2010-09-12 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi, I just did a test upgrade of a default lenny GNOME install to squeeze. It was a complete desaster. The abort in the udev preinstall script completely trashed the upgrade process. I got pages of error messages from apt and the last message definitely wasn't from udev, so spotting the instructi