On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:50:16PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 20:19 +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Ben Hutchings (b...@decadent.org.uk) [100125 20:14]: > > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 08:02:31PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > > * Julien Cristau (jcris...@debian.org) [100125 19:27]: > > > > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 18:56:47 +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I guess this means that the next version is no candidate for the > > > > > > release > > > > > > unless it gets a stable ABI (versioning) and should block the kernel > > > > > > from migrating for the time being? > > > > > > > > > > > The 2.6.30 kernel and the current 2.6.32 one aren't candidates either, > > > > > so I'm not sure what difference blocking the next one makes. > > > > > > > > That our testing users don't have to life with strange error messages > > > > they wouldn't get if the abi would be bumped properly. > > > > > > OK, maybe we should start numbering ABIs with this next version. > > > > I'd appreciate that very much. > > There has been some argument over whether we should do this or not. > Bastian and Max seem to think that many more ABI-changing config changes > will still be needed
seems likely > and do not want to start numbering yet. I'm not > convinced that changing the ABI number repeatedly in testing/unstable > will even hurt that much since we no longer have to worry about > dependent module packages in the archive. It may add to cruft on users' > systems but this can be fixed after a reboot with 'apt-get autoremove'. yeah, i think people running sid/testing who do use oot modules shouldn't have much problem w/ frequent module rebuilds - esp if the abi is silently changing and they may really need to rebuild anyway. [Like with a module on my mythbox recently :)] > I do want to see this argument resolved before building and uploading, > but I also don't want to hold back security and stability fixes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
