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Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge



Yann Dirson dijo [Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:38:54AM +0200]:
> That's more or less what I'd think of as well.  We can start with an
> empty security patch, and have this one grow as needed.  This way, apt
> will show people they have an outdated security patch - which, BTW,
> may be more of an incentive to upgrade than just an outdated
> kernel-source package.
> 
> That does not mean the user will rebuild his kernel at once with the
> new patch, but well, I don't think we can do much more here :)

I like the idea... And maybe we should alert the user that he needs to
rebuild the kernel using a debconf dialog or by mailing him...

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