Re: Debian should not modify the kernels!
On 2003-10-06, Adam McKenna <adam@flounder.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:54:09PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
>> > Because it is the only thing I could find that reflects Debian's
>> > take on security fixes: feature backports are to be avoided.
>>
>> That's because it's the position of the *Security Team*, and is
>> certainly not binding on other developers who are making changes to
>> packages in *unstable*.
>
> I don't see how the package being in unstable affects any part of this
> argument. Will the feature backport be less desirable when the
> kernel-source package is released in a stable revision of Debian?
Yes. Once the kernel-source is in a stable revision, feature
backports of *new* features will be undesirable.
The point of the policy is to prevent behaviour from changing without
warning or unnecessarily.
Peace,
Dylan
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