Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 01:45:08AM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote: >> This is, however, my _personal_opinion_ and there will probably be >> very good reasons against it. Let the debate begin! > >One reason against it is that there are probably machines running Debian >that were last rebooted before linux 2.2 was out. It's sort of cool >to be able to keep upgrading those without losing their uptime -- it >demonstrates one of Debian's technical principles.
We've already lost the ability to manage modular 2.0 kernels, though, and I don't think most of the rest impact your ability to keep an old machine running. Perhaps we should remove most of the old packages containing sources and patches, and add a package providing an older modutils if this is important. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
