On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 02:20:41PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > Source: linux > Severity: serious > X-Debbugs-Cc: j...@debian.org > > After we had discussed the new proposal a couple months ago and were > left with severe open questions and concerns it seems that these have > been ignored and the packages uploaded anyway, breaking APT's algorithm > that ensures the currently booted kernel is not offered for removal, as > well as possibly others. > > In addition, this means that the ABI changes within the same package > names, causing different ABIs to no longer be co-installable, which can > have drastic effect on thef function of systems: > > - modules will fail to load until you reboot > - modules needed to reboot will fail to load until you reboot (if any) > > I do not believe fucking up our users for convenience of the maintainers > and lacking of tools on the ftpmaster side to automatically approve new > ABI renames is the right call here. > > As such if this change is not reverted, I intend to reassign this to > the technical committee for deliberation.
This is a followup to the discussion in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1040901 which we discussed all this in October all these concerns were already raised in, and lots of open questions remained that we were nowhere near ready to do this even if we all agreed that was the right move. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
