Re: *** SPAM *** Re: Kernel Security Updates for Sarge
- To: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
- Cc: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>, Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>, Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>, Norbert Tretkowski <nobse@debian.org>, Thibaut VARENE <varenet@debian.org>, dann frazier <dannf@debian.org>, Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>, Rob Radez <rob@osinvestor.com>, Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>, Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>, Frederik Schüler <fschueler@gmx.net>, Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org>, Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org>, Sven Luther <luther@debian.org>, Kyle McMartin <kyle@debian.org>, "Christian T. Steigies" <cts@debian.org>, Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, LaMont Jones <lamont@debian.org>, Bdale Garbee <bdale@debian.org>, Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>
- Subject: Re: *** SPAM *** Re: Kernel Security Updates for Sarge
- From: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
- Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 11:44:52 +0200
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On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:40:47AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> Sven Luther wrote:
> [snip]
> > > > It would make little sense to do separate uploads for them.
> > >
> > > It is nevertheless necessary, according to the security team's historical
> > > policy on security uploads. You can upload whatever you want to
> > > testing-proposed-updates, *right now*, but it doesn't do our users any good
> > > until r1 unless we also get something uploaded to testing-security that will
> > > be accepted and actually made available for download.
> >
> > Notice though that the right way to fix these issues would be to make a new
> > set of kernels available in sarge (even though they are not used by d-i), so
> > that our users get the real thing, and not the patently broken and full of
> > security issues kernel that we currently ship.
>
> s/sarge/t-p-u/ because of GPL cornercases.
Bah, you can just put the old kernels in a special d-i-area or whatever, and
the GPL will be just fine. It is not as if we where not able to get the
packages from snapshot.debian.net anyway.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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