[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Handling of linux-modules-*-2.6 during

[Michael Meskes]

On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 08:33:01PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> how suprising is that when the upload was made by patrick without prior
> discussion/announcement/communication/$whatever on the list.

Right no discussion from noone. So we are all at fault somehow.

> however, as indicated already, past is past.

Agreed.

> > This btw is also the reason why it
> > was uploaded to sid. After all it fixes some bugs.
> 
> for the records: the new upstream version only fixes two bugs: #495028
> which is a cosmetic thing and not worth the trouble, and #499623 which
> is absolutely unimportant - 2.6.27 is post lenny anyway.

Yes, in terms of Debian bugs. But it does close a lot of upstream bugs. Granted
they weren't reported for Debian but they were available in Debian too.
Therefore I think the release team's decision to unblock 1.6.6 is the best
scenarion anyway.

Michael
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