Re: should the module script be invoked every time?

[Paul Hedderly <paul@mjr.org>]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 05:19:10PM +0000, Chris Weiss wrote:
> 
> Being that I'm using debian woody (stable) (which for some reason is still using
> 2002_01_14) and Mandrake 9.1 (which i have not tested but uses 2002_04_01) would it

I can only speak for Debian here. (I'm surprised that Mandrake 9.1 is
using such an old hotplug since 9.1 is quite recent...)

Debian Woody is, as you noted "stable". It is frozen and _only_ gets
updates for security issues and complete show-stopper bugs. That's it.

If you want newer, then you are free to run Testing or Unstable, or you
can recompile newer packages to run under woody. You _may_ find the
hotplug in testing/unstable (currently 0.0.20030117-7) runs fine on
woody without problem.

Oh, you _may_ find there are fixes to big issues in the
woody/updated/security archives. The main package version would not be
incremented, just the Debian release no.

But please don't complain that an old frozen distribution is old. That's
like complaining that the Pope is Catholic.

Oh, and what the distro's do with hotplug is not the hotplug projects
responsibility. They can't be expected to constantly keep up with what
the distros are using.

--
Paul

> be to much to ask to add a note to the docs stating such?  Maybe even alert the
> distro's that they are using old bugy version of your package?  My first thought
> here was that hotplug was a dodgy package that doesn't work as advertized and no one
> cares, only after bothering to correct this did I learn that the distro's are using
> old and buggy versions of your software.
> 
> Anyone got a "non broken" deb package of this somewhere?  i'm still a bit weary of
> compiliing things in deb to replace "core" functions (yes, I see hotplug as core).
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
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