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Re: next debian stable ?



On Thu, 01 May 2003 11:11:57 -0400
Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org> wrote:

> It should be pointed out that it would be irresponsible of them to ship
> the officially released 2.4.20.  After adding the ptrace patch it could
> be argued that it would be better to bump the version number to avoid
> confusion as to whether or not it is patched.
> Then again maybe they did just release with a beta kernel

Why would that have been irresponsible? The ptrace vulnerability came to
light after the release.

They released with a beta kernel. Period.

Kevin



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