[FFE] update udev to 161
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| udev (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Martin Pitt | ||
| Maverick |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Martin Pitt | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: udev
We never updated udev in maverick, due to some lack of coordination. Scott mentioned that he tried a 157 version, but it failed to boot. I found one possible reason why that failed (the newer version dropped a rules file, and the initramfs hook needed to be updated due to that; it's possible that he missed that the initramfs wasn't rebuilt properly and thus it failed to boot).
We currently have version 151 in maverick, current upstream is 161 (which is also in Debian). Most commits to udev are bug fixes, and we accumulated tons of keymap and other hardware fixes, plus we also finally made DVD-RW detection work (bug 502143 and bug 581925).
Please see http://
I went through the commits since version 151, and those are not just bug fixes:
Merely adds new symlinks, harmless.
modem-modeswitch is obsolete and not maintained upstream any more. We need to install usb-modeswitch by default. This needs to be approved/handled in conjunction with bug 521578.
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We don't use the "all_partitions" and "ignore_remove" options anywhere, and it was a hack in the first place.
Supports kvm related (virtual) hardware for virtio. Just adds new symlinks, harmless.
New rule option, but a no-op for now since we don't use it.
There are also some commits introducing .system.in files for systemd, but since we use upstart, they don't affect us.
In the interest of keeping up with hardware support I really recommend the upgrade. I can commit to watching out for regressions and dealing with them, I'm one of the udev upstreams.
| Changed in udev (Ubuntu Maverick): | |
| assignee: | nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti) |
| Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in udev (Ubuntu Maverick): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote | #2 |
| StefanPotyra (sistpoty) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in udev (Ubuntu Maverick): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| milestone: | none → ubuntu-10.10-beta |
| StefanPotyra (sistpoty) wrote | #4 |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #5 |
| Changed in udev (Ubuntu Maverick): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
| Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote | #6 |
I prepared a test package in https:/
Note that it's still very sloppy changelog-wise, and there's still tons of lintian warnings to fix (not due to the new upstream version, it's just the packaging is slightly out of date), I"ll fix that for the real upload.