Freeze exception for including usb-modeswitch in main and default (was Re: Including usb-modeswitch in default installation?)

[Marjo Mercado]

Hi Scott,

I agree with your proposal below. It's quite late in the release cycle
for such a major change with potential of breakage.

Thanks,

Marjo

On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 13:49 +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 12:17 +0200, Peteris Krisjanis wrote:
> 
> > A little bit *bump* - so, what we do with this one? Is there enough
> > reason for freeze exception for this one?
> > 
> A freeze exception wouldn't just be "add usb-modeswitch", we also need
> to remove modem-modeswitch from udev, make sure that usb-modeswitch
> covers all of its hardware - and probably also do the same with the
> kernel code that deals with the other kinds of devices.
> 
> It's quite a large change to make this late in an LTS cycle, with a
> possible impact of breaking these devices entirely.
> 
> I'd be more comfortable with going with what we have for now - and
> having the work done to use only usb-modeswitch in lucid+1
> 
> Scott

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