On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 19:21, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> Why is that necessary when they are available in experimental? It's a problem for me because I deal with lots of people that I can't explain that too. > Bear in mind that we do not want to have multiple kernel versions in one > release, as that increases the support burden. Interesting. Perhaps that can be revisited? I don't know the history of what was a PITA in the past so I totally understand if I'm misunderstanding the scope. Either way there is some sort of support burden: on one hand you have more than one kernel (support problems), on the other hand, you don't have newer kernels (other problems). In general, I think it's a valid argument to view the kernel as similar to gcc. Just like there is software that will only build with a specific version of gcc, there are new machines that will not run on old kernels. And, like gcc, there are several core packages that have multiple versions available for various reasons: automake, readline, python, etc. > Please file a bug on the kernel version in 'sid' for each unsupported The problems I've seen I didn't think were bugs because the 2.6.35 packages you made work. So in that regard -- thanks for your packages because they work! It didn't occur to me to report back porting bugs. Anyway, it would have been a waste of time for everyone. I respect your enthusiasm, but I don't have time to make backported patches. That's very difficult, time consuming and sometimes not safe anyway. Forward looking problems like why video breaks in 2.6.35 (Lenovo T61p) are more important to me. I'm just trying to humbly suggest (or lobby) for the inclusion of 2.6.34, 2.6.35,etc. directly in sid. This might benefit kernel development in general. Lots of users are aware of apt-cache search & would try them on a wider array of machines. Particularly in sid where users are a bit more savvy. -- Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktin6qj9o-ex2bhqr-x=zcp7o2exxsznukmsrg...@mail.gmail.com
