On 12/11/14 22:13, intrigeri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> anonym wrote (12 Nov 2014 14:12:35 GMT) :
>> Please review'n'merge this kernel bump into stable and devel, which will
>> close ticket #8249.
>
> I've taken care of it, as part of the LHF session => passes some basic
> manual tests, and a couple features of the automatic test suite
> (erase_memory, evince). Merged!
>
>> This has to be done relatively soon since the
>> current kernel we install will be removed in about four days
>> (~2014-11-16).
>
> Well, it was removed already and the builds were broken again.
Ok. I thought the "staging" time was 10 days.
>> A notable change in this kernel upgrade is that the -486 packages are
>> renamed -586 (and indeed do no run on true 486 any more). To keep the
>> consistency on our side we may want to do the following:
>
>> sed 's/486/586/g' config/binary_local-hooks/20-syslinux_detect_cpu
>
>> but it isn't necessary [1] so I have refrained from doing it since
>> renaming the syslinux menu file feels a bit risky for a point-release
>> (perhaps it'll mess up IUK upgrades, the Tails installer or something?).
>
> Agreed. May you please please file a ticket about it, so that we don't
> forget to clean things up in the next major release or so?
Filed as #8255.
Cheers!
