Bug#317810: Please reduce Depends: gnome-volume-manager to Recommends

[Loïc Minier]

        Hi,

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> We have 2 issues here.
> 1) Forcing users to use udev which has some annoying bugs.
> 2) The fact the latest udev in sid doesn't work with the Debian kernels=
.
>=20
> Item 1) can be solved by bringing back the magicdev alternative. Item 2=
)
> can be solved by forcing the udev maintainer (maybe through the
> technical committee) to support the 2.6 kernels beginning with the
> version in sarge.

 I talked with the udev maintainer, Marco, and he said current udev
 should have supported 2.6.11, but didn't really support it, by mistake.
 The package is currently in a broken state, since no 2.6.12 kernels are
 in sid yet.  Marco is confident that a 2.6.12 will hit Debian soon,
 since "dilinger" is talking of an upload in the next days.

 It's not nice to have so tight kernel dependencies.  I think it's up to
 GNOME to decide whether they continue support on udev + magicdev, or
 only on udev.  As long as they support both, we can do the same, and I
 think we should.

   Bye,

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