Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 10:27:30AM -0500, David B Harris wrote: >> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:12:58 -0500 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathanael Nerode) wrote: >> > I filed bug 241225 to prevent new hotplug from going into sarge until >> > the ALSA issue is resolved. > >> Can one of the release managers comment on this? Me and the other ALSA >> maintainers had planned on changing (perhaps getting rid of) the init >> script for Sarge+1. If we need to accelerate these plans, we wouldn't >> mind a bit of notice. It's a fairly major change. > > There seems to have been quite a bit of activity on this bug since your > message; are you still looking for comments from the release team? > > I would note that any bug that can be described as "fake bug to keep foo > out of testing until bar is ready" is almost certain to cause problems > with partial upgrades. Although generally discouraged by policy, would > a versioned Conflicts be appropriate here? (I.e., do you regard the > current versions of hotplug and alsa-base to be usable enough that users > should be able to install them together? Bug #241225 suggests the > answer is no.)
Unfortunately, I see no way of stating that the *current* version of hotplug doesn't get along with the *current* version of alsa -- since they've both been uploaded already. :-P New versions of hotplug and alsa-base probably should have appropriate Conflicts: with apprpriate older versions, yes. I'm not quite sure what. -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/
