Re: Re: Dropping 2.4 hppa kernel-image packages

2005-01-14 Thread Christian Perrier
(Joey, in the highly improbable case you would have missed this in -release) Not only are they. They are OBSOLETE, and UNMAINTAINED upstream. No need to shout, I think, especially at our release managers..:-) Last summer, 2.6 wasn't working properly on hppa (much borkage) and the only

Re: Re: Dropping 2.4 hppa kernel-image packages

2005-01-14 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: Unfortunately, and as far as I can tell, there hasn't been much activity and interaction with the d-i team about this. So, it turns out that the 2.6/installer combination is very likely to be nearly untested. Having hppa installs be really tested was already a

Re: Re: Dropping 2.4 hppa kernel-image packages

2005-01-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:47:01AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Christian Perrier wrote: I'm not even sure that hppa installs are really well tested, by the way. Joey could tell more and this probably needs more input from him. He may even correct me if I'm completely wrong. So all I can say

Re: Re: Dropping 2.4 hppa kernel-image packages

2005-01-13 Thread Thibaut VARENE
*** PLEASE CC ME IN REPLIES *** If the hppa 2.6 kernels were included in the last d-i release candidate and there are successful install reports with that version, I think it's reasonable to consider dropping 2.4 kernels if they're really this difficult to support. Not only are they. They