Bug#325142: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#325142: Don't understand, seems like circular issue

[Jordi Mallach]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:20:52AM -0400, Steve Strong wrote:
> udev 0.060 and to some extent greater depends on kernel 2.6.12 or
> greater. Not sure whether something up to .068 fixed this or not.
> 
> kernel-source 2.6.11 is unstable and 2.6.8 is testing.

linux-2.6 2.6.12 (source) and linux-image-2.6.12 is in unstable. Watch
out, package names have changed.

> Looking at the udev .068 package in unstable, it looks like there are
> plenty of problems that'll make it quite some time before it is moved to
> testing.
> 
> About 585 other packages in testing seem to depend on the testing
> version of udev. This seems to be the only package in testing that
> requires an unstable version of a tool that would break dependencies of
> so many other packages.

This is because it slipped into testing. If we had noticed, we would
have prevented this with a dummy RC bug, but it's late now.

glibc should enter testing, hopefully, in a week or so. We can only wait
for that at this point.

> If nothing, could this be rebuilt for testing with the testing version
> of udev (.056-3)? At least until udev resolves their many issues and
> get's a newer version into testing...

Maybe the easiest is to rebuild current udev in a testing box, and
install the new kernel from unstable (that won't have any dependency
problem).

That, or wait. We're really focused on ALSA 1.0.10, so we'd like to keep
going. When new versions of glibc get stuck, testing suffers in many
ways. This is one of them. :(

Jordi
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