Dropping i386 non-PAE as a supported kernel flavour in Precise Pangolin

[Jamie Strandboge]

On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 06:53 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Jamie Strandboge [2011-11-14 12:24 -0600]:
> > What about simply demoting the binary packages for this flavor, but
> > still build it? We wouldn't have to explicitly test it for SRUs/security
> > updates or deal with it with LTS backorts, but it would presumably still
> > be in ok shape since we would be actively testing the i686 pae kernel.
> 
> I know that there is not much of an SRU policy left for the kernel,
> but that doesn't work. If we expect people to run this kernel, we
> can't just break it underneath them and render their systems broken.
> We at least need to check that it still boots on a small number of
> machines.
> 
> That approach would work better if the PAE kernel would be a separate
> source package and thus _not_ get the thousands of changes that get
> thrown into main kernel in stable updates. But I guess that wouldn't
> make maintenance any easier?

I am in strong agreement with Steve Langasek on this one (which should
be evident since he and I proposed the same thing ;). I think it would
be sufficient to smoke test the kernel to see if it boots. This is way
better for users than putting the non-PAE source in universe-- it would
almost certainly rarely get updated.

-- 
Jamie Strandboge             | http://www.canonical.com
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