Bug#398924: Conflict between Gnome, udev, hotplug and linux-2.4

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Fri Nov 17 21:58:10 CET 2006


On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 03:45:52PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > > We have one problematic case, though: Upgrades from 2.2 to 2.6 on an
> > > arch without 2.4-kernels. Do we need udev-backports for them?

> > The only arch with 2.2 kernels in sarge is m68k though, which isn't
> > releasing with etch.  The m68k porters should surely be consulted about how
> > they want to handle this.

> I know of at least one powerpc-subarchitecture that has no 2.4 kernels.
> I need to check whether they have working 2.6 kernels in sarge, or not.

Still not relevant, any powerpc subarchs that required 2.2 weren't supported
by sarge.  And glibc on powerpc doesn't support 2.2 in etch anyway.

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