On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Margarita Manterola wrote: > On 1/3/06, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why do you put the kernel together with the essential toolchain freeze, it > > should be together with the rest of base, i believe. > > [...] > > We will have a kernel which is outdated by two versions at release time with > > this plan, since there are about 1 kernel upstream release every 2 month. > > > > So, we will be asking the question about the upgradability of the kernel > > later > > during this release process, and i believe that it is not something which > > should be ignored. Already you are considering upgrading the sarge kernel > > which has some trouble booting on a rather non-negligible quantity of > > hardware, so having a two version outdated kernel at release time is not > > nice. > > I really don't think that having a four months out-dated kernel is > that bad. What is really important is to have stable kernels. Past > experience with the modified 2.6 release policy has shown that some > 2.6 kernels are pretty stable and some others are quite crappy.
Not to mention that 2.6.15 requires a newer udev. Who knows what other newer things newer kernels might require. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
