[Kernel] Release Meeting 2012-03-23

[Leann Ogasawara]

On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 08:08 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hello Leann,
> 
> Leann Ogasawara [2012-03-22  5:46 -0700]:
> > As noted, we've dropped the non-smp PowerPC kernel flavor [1].
> 
> Is that the reason why linux-image-powerpc (the binary from
> linux-meta) now wants to go to universe?
> 
>   http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/component-mismatches.txt
> 
> I suppose this package still has to exist in precise to faciliate
> upgrades. However, I noted that it does not actually depend on the
> current metapackage:
> 
>   Package: linux-image-powerpc
>   Depends: linux-image-3.2.0-20-powerpc-smp, linux-firmware

Indeed, we've kept the linux-image-powerpc meta package but pointed it
at the powerpc-smp flavor so that updates/upgrades wouldn't break.

> I think it should rather depend on linux-image-powerpc-smp, so that it
> can go away after precise, and upgraders will have the new metapackage
> installed.

You're right, I'll make sure this change happens and get it uploaded
after Beta-2 but before kernel freeze.

> In the meantime we should seed this explicitly to keep it in main,
> right?

Yes please.

Thanks,
Leann