Updating SRU exception for hal-info

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 09:58:33AM -0400, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> 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?

We don't restrict SRUs of any other packages out of concern that the
toolchain will be broken, and the SRU exception for hal-info (and
subsequently udev) doesn't wave the requirement of regression-testing and a
waiting period.  Surely splitting the keymaps back out would be an
artificial and cumbersome separation, and sets a /more/ strict standard than
for our other SRUs?

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