What does it take to fork the kernel?

[Samuel Thibault]

Chris Brannon, le Thu 18 Feb 2010 08:20:35 -0600, a écrit :
> > The problem with building a Debian package for each new kernel Ubuntu
> > ships is that users will find that speakup stops talking after random
> > upgrades.
> 
> Can't you control that with your package manager?  E.G., with Speakup
> having a dependency on a certain range of kernel versions?

It's already the case, but that doesn't prevent the default boot choice
from being to boot a newer kernel, even if the older is still available.

Samuel