On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 02:30:41PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > What would be the correct handling for a package whose upstream sources > > use a userspace<->kernel interface introduced in 2.6.39? > > Check for -ENOSYS, print a helpful error message, and exit. And cooperate > with upstream to come up with a reasonable fallback so your package can > work in a sid chroot on a stable system.
Why is this "sid chroot on a stable system" usecase so important? And how are you currently ensuring that perf is working in your "sid chroot on a stable system" usecase? cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org