Re: Security Updates and kernel-tree fun

[Horms <horms@debian.org>]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 04:03:31PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 04:25:19PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 07:51:20AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 02:04:20PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > Referring to
> > > > http://people.debian.org/~dannf/kernel-stats/kernel-avail.html
> > > > (thanks dannf) I notice that the following kernel-tree versions
> > > > are in use in Sarge: 
> > > > 
> > > > 2.4.27-10: alpha, i386, ia64, powerpc  (latest)
> > > > 2.4.27-9:  powerpc
> > > > 2.4.27-8:  s390
> > > > 2.4.27-5:  apus    (so old its scary)
> > > 
> > > apus is now built from the same package as powerpc, so there can be no such
> > > discrepancy in kernel-tree versions.
> > 
> > A believe that is refering to the binaries produced by
> > kernel-patch-2.4.27-apus, rather than the apus kernels
> > produced by kernel-patch-powerpc-2.4.27.
> 
> kernel-patch-2.4.27-apus should be kicked out of the archive, even from sarge
> if possible, there is no reason it is still there, since the ones produced by
> the -powerpc package obsolete it. I wonder why it didn't happen, either i
> forgot to fill a bug against ftp.debian.org asking for its removal, or the
> ftp-masters slept it over. It should have been removed in marsch/april or so.

Thanks. That means we can go right ahead and ignore them :)

-- 
Horms