reopen 633961 reassign 633961 linux-image-3.1.0-1-amd64 found 633961 3.1.8-2 thanks
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 04:48:04AM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: >... > Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 22:44:20 -0600 > From: Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: linux images must conflict with unfixed input-utils > > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > Upgrading the kernel without also upgrading input-utils (e.g. when > > using the version in squeeze or the version currently in testing) > > makes input-utils unusable (see #609300). > [...] > > Therefore the old functionality input-utils is using will always > > be available, and the bug was that EVIOCGVERSION shouldn't be used > > to check with equality for EV_VERSION (version >= 0x010001 might > > be a valid check for software using EVIOCGKEYCODE_V2). > > Right, makes sense. > > The installed kernel package has very little relation to the running > kernel, so there's not that much sane the kernel packages can do to > help. Closing. When installing a more recent kernel package it is actually relatively likely that it will also be used soon. The nice thing is that the new input-utils version works with both older and latest kernels, so adding a "Breaks: input-utils (<< 1.0)" has no real disadvantage, while helping people installing more recent kernel packages (e.g. through backports). > Thanks for your work, > Jonathan Thanks Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
