Re: Linux 2.0.36 in slink?
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 03:15:00PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Sunday 13 December 1998, at 22 h 55, the keyboard of Joel Klecker
> <jk@espy.org> wrote:
>
> > Considering that this is a bug fix release including various security
> > fixes, I think 2.0.36 belongs in slink.
>
> No. Only one reason but a good one: 2.0.36 (the so-called "bug fix only")
> changed in an important way the behaviour of ISDN devices. The new one works
> only with the debian isdnutils package 3.0 which is in potato... and will not
> go into slink now.
So, what's worse? Shipping a kernel with known security holes, or moving
isdnutils into slink this late in the freeze?
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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