[mythtv-users] Ubuntu Edgy -> Feisty upgrade report

[Brian Wood]

Bill Williamson wrote:

>>
>> The "old way" of doing things would not have created this problem.
> 
> 
> Under the old way, though, you wouldn't be getting IVTV updates/etc in
> the stable stream...  So you'd be running the unstable kernel.
>

Maybe, maybe not. In some cases device drivers that were developed in
the developmental kernel tree were moved to the stable one prior to the
version upgrade. I'm thinking of "The Teac will be Assimilated", some
sound drivers and some scsi drivers, so it can be done. Whether it would
be done is another question.

An example might be the move from a.out to elf. It was done gradually,
with a lot of overlap, and plenty of notice in installation messages
etc. In fact modern systems can still run a.out.

The user should have the choice.

</thread> !

In any case all I can do is gripe, and I've done too much of that.