[Quantal][SRU][pull-request] Misc linux-backports-modules cleanup

[Tim Gardner]

On 10/18/2012 03:00 PM, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1068125
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1068283
>
> == Quantal SRU Justification ==
> The following pull request performs some misc cleanup for the
> linux-backports-modules package for Quantal.
>
> The first patch makes the compat-wireless firmware udev helper file
> names version and ABI specific.  We allow multiple upstream versions of
> the compat-wireless stack to be packaged and installed.  There currently
> exists a potential for conflicts with some of the compat-wireless
> firmware udev helper file names due to the files only being ABI
> specific, but not version specific, with respect to their naming
> convention.  Fix this by making these both version and ABI specific.
>

I am not convinced this is necessary. All subsequent CW packages _must_ 
conflict, therefore you can never get into a state of clashing udev 
firmware helpers. Refer to the complex conflict relationships in Lucid LBM.

Its possible that you could get into trouble if you force installed a 
kernel and CW package from another release that had the same ABI. To 
avoid that conflict you'd have to distinguish the udev helpers names by 
release name _and_ ABI. I'm not sure that scenario is worth the complexity.

> The second patch removes all udebs and udeb creation logic from LBM.
> LBM is an elective install and not part of any default server or netboot
> installation.  It is therefore unnecessary to provide an
> updates-modules.udeb (it was empty anyways) nor have anything to do with
> udeb creation in general for that matter.
>

Shouldn't this patch also remove debian/d-i ?

rtg
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