Phasing out the broken-workaround procps

Posted Oct 30, 2008 9:49 UTC (Thu) by ncm (guest, #165)
In reply to: Networking change causes distribution headaches by njs
Parent article: Networking change causes distribution headaches

I still haven't seen a plausible story of how they're going to phase out the buggy workaround. Will there be a good procps package that conflicts with the bad kernel, and a good kernel that conflicts with the workaround procps version? Will they be in the security-updates repository?

Phasing out the broken-workaround procps

Posted Oct 30, 2008 9:56 UTC (Thu) by njs (subscriber, #40338) [Link]

> Will there be a good procps package that conflicts with the bad kernel, and a good kernel that conflicts with the workaround procps version?

Sure, maybe. Is your objection literally that you don't know how they're going to phase it out, or that you're worried that in fact they won't phase it out? I don't know how they're planning to do it (though the suggestion somewhere upthread of checking the runtime version of the kernel sounded plausible to me, and they can just drop it altogether in 9.04 in any case), but I'm pretty confident that they don't want to carry this annoyingness around and will find some way to get rid of it, and the exact mechanism they choose doesn't affect me, so I don't really care what it is.

Phasing out the broken-workaround procps

Posted Oct 31, 2008 1:43 UTC (Fri) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link] (1 responses)

I just updated my system, and got a new procps package (1:3.2.7-9ubuntu2.1) that drops the sysctl changes and a new linux kernel package (2.6.27-7.15) that fixes the options order. Both packages came through the intrepid-security repository.

Phasing out the broken-workaround procps

Posted Oct 31, 2008 2:11 UTC (Fri) by ncm (guest, #165) [Link]

Okay, then.

At what point will the download CD/DVD images get the updates?