On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
Not to be the thorn in the side of progress, but we can't keep changing this every six months on a whim unless we truly don't care about some semblance of stability and uptime.
Side-note: Changing the minimum regularly does not mean that people need to upgrade regularly. Hopefully the people who were forced to upgrade before, did not upgrade to the new minimum, but to something relatively recent. In other words, the people who upgraded five months ago, should be good to go for at least another year (fingers crossed).
So obviously if you update udev on your system, you should be expected to run a kernel that satisfies the requirement
This was exactly my concern. If people hold back udev to avoid updating the kernel, they would also need to hold back other packages that might depend on changes in udev, and so on. Which packages to hold back will probably not be at all clear (as backwards compatibility might be unintentionally broken). What do we recommend people to do in these situations? Cheers, Tom