update problem

[Scott Kitterman]

On Friday 09 February 2007 13:50, John Dangler wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 13:24 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > On Friday 09 February 2007 11:48, Thilo Six wrote:
> > > Paul Kaplan wrote the following on 09.02.2007 02:01:
> > > > In today's update, there are two packages that list as upgradable;
> > > > linux-headers-generic and linux-image-generic.  Yet when I try to
> > > > select either or both of these for upgrading the system tells me the
> > > > upgrade will break something.  Any idea what?  Is there a missing
> > > > upgrade? Paul
> > >
> > > it is known and it devs are working on it:
> > >
> > > https://launchpad.net/soyuz/+bug/83976/
> >
> > The new kernel is released (at least for Edgy).
> >
> > Scott K
>
> It seems odd that the bug reported (and all duplicates) talk heavily
> about the problem on Edgy, yet Dapper LTS (_long term support_) isn't
> mentioned as even being looked at.
>
> I would think that the emphasis would be on the long term supported
> version of the OS, with related issues being tied to future release
> versions.  It appears (according to the launchpad communications) to be
> just the opposite.
>
> Also, I read through the 21 page forum entry regarding this, then looked
> up various other incantations of this problem, yet didn't see any
> mention of it at Ubuntu... I would think that some sort of special
> notation should be given to it so that the list, forums, launchpad, etc
> aren't flooded with messages.  I would also think that, since the
> developers/maintainers have been duly notified, they would be able to
> respond with a tentative target window for getting this repaired and
> getting the repo's up to speed...

I think it's a function of what most people are running.

The bug was in Soyuz (the build system) not specific to a release.   I just 
checked on my Dapper box and the new kernel is there for Dapper too.

Scott K