On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 17:48 +0200, Peter Van Eynde wrote:
[... schnip ...] I can see what the solution would be but there are technical and cultural problems with it, basicly the debian package would be 'different' from a normal cmucl and this is often enough reason to distrust bug reports from debian users.
This is a _very_ good point!
I'm open to suggestions on what I should 'require'. ;-)
Well, hopefull this is only a short-term issue. I don't really know the Debian package syntax, but can't you can something like "requires linux-image-2.4, or linux-image-2.6 with version <= 2.6.15"?
This would only require a specific version of the kernel to be installed, there is no general way to say 'this package only runs with kernels < 2.6.15 and > 2.7.17-5 (I hope).
Well, isn't this a job for the 'Conflicts' section. Of course this would only protect the user from installing a not-working kernel image but those who compile their own kernels should know what they do. Cheers, Ralf Mattes
Groetjes, Peter