Bug#731995: gdm3 needs linux >= 3.2

Andreas Cadhalpun andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com
Mon Dec 16 18:33:20 UTC 2013


Control: severity -1 minor
Control: retitle -1 gdm3 breaks linux <=2.6

Hi Simon,

thanks for the explanation.

On 16.12.2013 18:54, Simon McVittie wrote:
> As far as I'm aware, Debian does not support upgrades from version n to
> version n+2: when jessie becomes stable (as Debian 8), if you have a
> machine that still runs squeeze (Debian 6), you're expected to complete
> the upgrade to wheezy (Debian 7), and in particular reboot into a wheezy
> kernel, before you start upgrading to jessie. The same applies while
> jessie is still testing: to go from oldstable to testing, upgrade to
> stable first.
So this is a minor bug (if at all), and the maintainers can decide, 
whether or not they want to do anything about it.

Best regards,
Andreas



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