On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 04:29:56PM +0100, Rob Bradford wrote: > I think we should push this matter through with an updated kernel in a 3.0r3 > update before the release of sarge. People could then upgrade to that before > upgrading to sarge. And in my opinion would make the upgrade process much > simpler and more straightforward. And as respect to security updates, this > will > need to be maintained as long as woody support is maintained.
Aside from the fact that the necessary emulation patch isn't ready, this would mean backporting the patch to a 2.4.18 kernel (since we can't break the kernel ABI in 3.0), which would probably be more trouble than it's worth. Additionally, an upgrade-i386 directory would provide a usable upgrade path for the length of sarge's lifetime, but an update to 3.0r3 would only be usable until oldstable was kicked from the archive. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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