- We applied the "fix", as planned, to the udev in Edgy Eft.
- While the fix corrected the problem described here, it caused new problems. Because it was a fundamental change to device ordering, it changed the order of other devices where more than one existed in the system -- including other disks
- For Edgy this was not a problem, as the upgrade makes other changes that make device order non-important anyway
- These changes are too invasive for backporting to dapper
- This bug has a known workaround, which can be applied by the minority of users affected by it
- That workaround is preferable to causing far more working systems to cease functioning.
Officially marking as Rejected for dapper.
Here is the reasoning:
- We applied the "fix", as planned, to the udev in Edgy Eft.
- While the fix corrected the problem described here, it caused new problems. Because it was a fundamental change to device ordering, it changed the order of other devices where more than one existed in the system -- including other disks
- For Edgy this was not a problem, as the upgrade makes other changes that make device order non-important anyway
- These changes are too invasive for backporting to dapper
- This bug has a known workaround, which can be applied by the minority of users affected by it
- That workaround is preferable to causing far more working systems to cease functioning.