On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:16:55PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 03:01:44PM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > >... > > > Depending on the release plan and the ETA for a working 2.6 on Macs it > > > might perhaps be possible to include an installer without support for > > > Macs in Debian 3.1r0 and add support for them in later point releases? > > > > I just spent two months adding 2.2 and m68k support to d-i. I'd be a bit > > upset if we didn't release with any 2.2 kernels because it's > > aesthetically pleasing. > >... > > The point is not whether it's aesthetically pleasing, the point is > whether there should be security updates for three major revisions of > the kernel. Actually, the point is whether we're going to drop support for a subclass of machines that we support right now. That's pretty severe. > The extra work will be to include fixes for all security vulnerabilities > in the kernel that become known and that affect kernel 2.2 or are > specific to kernel 2.2 soon after they are discovered until one year > after the release of Debian 3.2. This will include backporting fixes > that will only be available for kernel 2.4 or 2.6 to kernel 2.2. > > Roughly estimated on the current release speed, this means you will be > personally responsible for security fixes in kernel 2.2 until 2008 or > 2009. I'm not planning on going anywhere. I expect at least one of my boxes will still be alive by then. -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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