On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 12:40:50AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi all, > > Apologies if this is something that people are already aware of. Since > I don't know the status of PTS handling and/or adoption for the > kernel-image and kernel-source packages, I thought it would be best to > post here directly to draw your attention to bug #253787, a > release-critical bug in the 2.4.26 kernel-source (and probably in 2.6 as > well, judging by the problems I've seen reported by users) that affects > many, if not most, alpha systems. > > Prompt attention to this bug would be appreciated. I'm not exactly > clear on what policies exist for changing the patchsets in > kernel-patch-debian-2.4.26 and kernel-source-2.4.26, but I'm happy to do > as much legwork as necessary to help get this fix integrated in time for > debian-installer RC2.
I've talked to Herbert and Ivan on this a few weeks ago in my split-patches it's already marked for dropping in the next release.

