On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 13:32:46 +0200 Philip Hands <[email protected]> wrote:
> Alexander Sosedkin <[email protected]> writes: > > > On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 12:43:40 +0200 > > Philipp Kern <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Even if we'd leave the old kernel udebs in testing for a while, > >> you'd still hit a point where we'd need to drop them and old > >> installers would break. > > > > I can see that it's impossible to support downloading modules for > > all old ISOs. > > One can always use http://snapshot.debian.org/ as one's mirror and > specify a dated URL that matches the ISO's creation date. My point is that for ISOs that makes at least some sense, but having an old netboot kernel lying in-tree with no modules to complement it a grave bug. I shouldn't hunt for a snapshot to make my virt-install invocation work.
