Re: RFC: kernel packages cleanup
At Mon, 22 Mar 2004 21:16:17 +0100,
Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > 3. reduce the number of 2.4 kernel versions
> >
> > Yes please. The situation is totally insane at the moment already.
> >
> > We have to support 4+4 kernel versions in woody. I don't want to
> > know how many there are in sarge already. 8 is WAY TOO MUCH. If
> > the situation doesn't change, we have ABSOLUTELY NO chance to support
> > security updates to kernels in the released distribution.
> >
> > > In unstable, there are currently kernel sources for six different 2.4
> > > kernels (2.4.{19,20,21,22,24,25}). I'd like to see the number of such
> > > packages reduced.
> >
> > Mee too!!!
>
> After a quick view over all kernel and related packages, it seems doable
> to remove all 2.4 kernels except 2.4.24 and 2.4.25.
>
> I'll send a complete proposal for this soon.
I also welcome your proposal. Glibc, which is one of sensitive
software depended on kernel version, can also reduce supported kernel
version. Currently s390x (2.4.1), i686 (2.6.0), nptl (2.6.0), sparc64
(2.4.18) are minimally required as non-2.2 kernel version, but most
other architectures are capable for 2.2.0. For me, it's hard to test
for glibc on kernel 2.2 nowadays.
If we decide to drop 2.2 kernel support, debian-glibc package can bump
up MIN_KERNEL_SUPPORTED from 2.2.0 to 2.4.1 or later. Note that this
kind of work will be focused after releasing sarge.
Regards,
-- gotom
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