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RFC: Clean-up of old kernel ABIs at point releases

Started by	"Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
First post	2020-06-30 19:00 +0200
Last post	2020-06-30 19:00 +0200
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  RFC: Clean-up of old kernel ABIs at point releases "Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> - 2020-06-30 19:00 +0200

#67428 — RFC: Clean-up of old kernel ABIs at point releases

From	"Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
Date	2020-06-30 19:00 +0200
Subject	RFC: Clean-up of old kernel ABIs at point releases
Message-ID	<AnrCi-4mo-7@gated-at.bofh.it>

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Hi,

When the kernel ABI version has been increased between two point
releases, we currently remove the old versions as part of the point
release, to avoid carrying cruft.

This has unfortunate side-effects for a number of use cases, including
CI setups which immediately stop working as the packages they attempt
to install no longer exist in the archive.

If we were instead to change this policy to, for example, remove the
packages after the subsequent point release instead, can anyone see any
problems that this might cause, whether for tooling, tools or anything
else?

Regards,

Adam

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