Re: Please remove alsa-modules-2.4.27-1*

2005-01-11 Thread Thomas Hood
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:00:37 +0100, Steve Langasek wrote: > Wouldn't it be > much better to actually depend on the precise kernel image that the package > is known to be compatible with, to avoid bugs from users who install them on > systems running custom kernels and expect them to work? (I think

Re: Please remove alsa-modules-2.4.27-1*

2005-01-11 Thread Thomas Hood
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:00:37 +0100, Steve Langasek wrote: > Wouldn't it be > much better to actually depend on the precise kernel image that the package > is known to be compatible with, to avoid bugs from users who install them on > systems running custom kernels and expect them to work? (I think

Re: Please remove alsa-modules-2.4.27-1*

2005-01-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 04:23:16PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 02:44 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > To alleviate this problem, I request that alsa-modules-2.4.27-1* be > > > removed from sarge. > > > > Is this an issue with the current version of alsa-modules-2.4.27-1 be

Re: Please remove alsa-modules-2.4.27-1*

2005-01-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 04:23:16PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 02:44 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > To alleviate this problem, I request that alsa-modules-2.4.27-1* be > > > removed from sarge. > > > > Is this an issue with the current version of alsa-modules-2.4.27-1 be

Re: Please remove alsa-modules-2.4.27-1*

2005-01-08 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 02:44 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > To alleviate this problem, I request that alsa-modules-2.4.27-1* be > > removed from sarge. > > Is this an issue with the current version of alsa-modules-2.4.27-1 being > broken wrt the original 2.4.27-1 ABI, or is it just an issue of t

Re: Please remove alsa-modules-2.4.27-1*

2005-01-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 02:44:10AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:41:08AM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > > You may know all of this already but in case you don't ... > > Because of bug #284356 and the fact that kernel-image-2.4.27-1 packages > > affected by this bug were al

Re: Please remove alsa-modules-2.4.27-1*

2005-01-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:41:08AM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > You may know all of this already but in case you don't ... > Because of bug #284356 and the fact that kernel-image-2.4.27-1 packages > affected by this bug were allowed into sarge, users of sarge and kernel > 2.4.27-1 can't load module

Please remove alsa-modules-2.4.27-1*

2005-01-04 Thread Thomas Hood
You may know all of this already but in case you don't ... Because of bug #284356 and the fact that kernel-image-2.4.27-1 packages affected by this bug were allowed into sarge, users of sarge and kernel 2.4.27-1 can't load modules that were built for their kernel prior to the symbol change. E.g.,