Branches for Lenny

Author: Marco d'Itri
Revision Date: 2009-08-25 22:04:43 UTC

* Stable update: backported many fixes and rules updates from unstable.
* Run modprobe scsi_wait_scan in the initramfs before udevadm settle.
* Support kernel-specific firmware directories. (Closes: #504928)
* /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist: added hpwdt, it8712f_wdt, iTCO_wdt,
  pc87413_wdt, sbc7240_wdt, sbc_epx_c3, smsc37b787_wdt, w83697hf_wdt.
  (Closes: #504107)
* Set all devices created in d-i to mode 666. (Closes: #517389)
* postinst: do not try to start the daemon when run by debootstrap
  --second-stage because start-stop-daemon is not functional.
  (Closes: 520742)
* postinst: do not use /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug to allow installation
  (disabled) in OpenVZ VEs.
* postinst: restart rsyslogd too on the first install.
* Added patch fix-path_id-bashism. (Closes: #530213)
* Added patch cdrom_id_fix: improve support for some broken fake drives.
* Added patch bp_rules_generators: backported some fixes related to
  persistent rules.
* udev.rules: added block/MAJ:MIN and char/MAJ:MIN links.
* udev.rules: create the rtc link only for rtc_cmos devices.
* udev.rules, permissions.rules: added uat and ucma group rdma.
* udev.rules: make sr* the device names and scd* the compatibility links.
* permissions.rules: added mISDNtimer group dialout. (Closes: #521845)
* permissions.rules: correctly ignore the removable flag for aacraid
  devices. (Closes: #462655)
* permissions.rules: added pmu group video.
* permissions.rules: added mwave, hvc* and hvsi* group dialout.
* permissions.rules: added cpu[0-9]* mode 444.
* permissions.rules: added rfkill mode 644.
* persistent-input.rules: exclude digitizers from the joystick class.
* persistent-storage.rules: fixed matching of cciss non-partition devices.
  (Closes: #523019)
* persistent-storage.rules: ignore mtd[0-9]* and mtdblock[0-9]* devices.
* persistent-storage.rules: ignore btibm* devices.
* persistent-storage.rules: do not probe optical drivers which do not
  have a media inserted. (Closes: #512442)
* persistent-storage.rules: run edd_id on cciss devices. (Closes: #524906)
* persistent-storage-tape.rules: do not add a second -nst suffix.
* persistent-net-generator.rules: whitelist some MAC addresses which
  violate the local/global scheme.
* drivers.rules: always use modprobe -b.
* drivers.rules: added workaround to load the drivers for Sparc VIO
  devices. (Closes: #526621)