another upgrade, another disaster

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 11:36 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> Am 01.06.2012 11:25, schrieb Michal Schmidt:
> > On 06/01/2012 10:37 AM, Caterpillar wrote:
> >> Please apologize me, but if #820340 was not a showstopper, so which bug
> >> should be a showstopper?
> > 
> > The bug
> >  * does not cause data loss
> >  * is easy to recover from
> 
> for you and for me
> not for the majority of users
> 
> >  * seems to be fixable with an update
> 
> how do you do the update if your system does not boot?
> it is not sure that a kernel from the oldr release boots

In all our tests, it did.

> > => Not what I'd call a showstopper
> 
> depends on the point of view
> 
> at a minimum it should be granted that the kernel of the new
> distribution version is the default after dist-upgrade

That's easy to lie around and say. Do you want to be responsible for a)
testing to ensure that it's the case, b) coming up with viable patches
to ensure it happens, and c) delaying the release until this is the
case?
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