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linux-source-2.6.22 package

  1. Bug #74691
  2. Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 74691

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: [Bug 74691] Re: Unable to debug under 2.6.22 on i386: Failed to read a valid object file image from memory

On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 01:47:06PM -0000, Jon Anderson wrote:
> I respectfully submit that on OS which doesn't let developers debug is
> not a very useful OS.
>
> If the choice is between breaking ABI (while two months away from 7.10)
> and breaking the most basic of functionality for an entire Ubuntu
> release, well, I should hope that the choice would be obvious.

We are in a temporary freeze to prepare a milestone for release and testing,
which means this is an inconvenient time to change the kernel ABI, because
this requires a lengthy process of rebuilds to get everything back into
sync. Besides, as far as I see in this bug report, we don't actually have a
fix to apply, so there's no need to hypothesize about whether it might
change the ABI.

This bug remains open and is targeted for the next milestone. In other
words, don't panic.

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 - mdz