Updating SRU exception for hal-info

Scott James Remnant scott at ubuntu.com
Mon Aug 2 14:58:33 BST 2010


On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 10:48 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:

> == udev keymaps ==
> 
> udev ships a set of rules and keyboard maps which provide correct
> hotkey assignments for individual laptop and USB hardware, and fixes
> "stuck" keys on buggy BIOSes. Those maps can be backported to the
> current LTS release(s). After one week of maturing in -proposed and no
> regression bug reports it can be moved to -updates. 
> 
I have a concern with this:

The udev package contains more than just the keymaps, but a large number
of binaries - it's possible that updates could unexpectedly cause
problems due to toolchain issues, etc.

We should probably split the keymaps out of the package?

Scott
-- 
Scott James Remnant
scott at ubuntu.com
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/attachments/20100802/69163c71/attachment.pgp 


More information about the technical-board mailing list