Kernel security update would break ABI

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 09:30:49PM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:

> Am Freitag, den 03.12.2004, 10:43 -0800 schrieb Matt Zimmerman:
> > This would be great to have implemented in linux-meta in Hoary, though.  Is
> > anyone able to work on it?
> meta sounds like a pretty good task for packaging practice.
> :)

Now that I think about it, I don't think we can solve it in a
straightforward way.  The problem is that linux-meta is the piece with
enough information to know that the kernel is being upgraded to an
incompatible one, while only the actual linux-image package is able to abort
its own installation.

This needs some serious thought; this situation has happened before with a
security update, and it will happen again.

-- 
 - mdz