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

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Fri Oct 19 15:54:46 UTC 2012


On 10/19/2012 09:50 AM, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
> On 10/19/2012 07:44 AM, Tim Gardner wrote:
>> On 10/19/2012 07:49 AM, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
>>> On 10/19/2012 05:40 AM, Tim Gardner wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>> Hrm, seems we need our Conflicts: set up for Precise LBM too.  But
>>> that's beyond the scope of this patch set.  I'll send a follow on patch
>>> for that.
>>>
>> There is no use having a 'Conflicts:' until there is a package with
>> which to conflict, i.e., compat-wireless-3.7.
> 
> Indeed for Quantal LBM that's the case.  For Precise LBM though we
> already have cw-3.3, cw-3.4, cw-3.5, and cw-3.6 but no Conflicts set for
> any of them.
> 

Whoops. There is a disaster waiting for a place to happen. You gonna
write that patch ?

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com




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