Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge
On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 09:24:16PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > It's very hard to get these bug fixes anyway since when I do a
> > _complete_ diff between kernel-source-2.X.Y in the archive and the
> > kernel source for architecture foo I'll _always_ (accidentally) pull out
> > all the bug fixes you made. Only diffing specific parts of the
>
> OK, barring any major objections, that's how it will be for 2.4.21. I
> will make kernel-source-2.4.21 be identical to the upstream tar ball
> except for the non-free bits. A kernel-patch-i386 package will be
> introduced.
So this means that maintainers of the architecture patches must be sure to
merge in these fixes, otherwise they may inherit security vulnerabilities
(for example)? How can we track when this has happened when there are so
many different patches?
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- mdz
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