Re: kernel 2.2 packages cleanup

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 03:23:42PM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:06:15PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 03:56:05PM -0500, Camm Maguire wrote:
> > > Greetings!  Pardon my ignorance, but are the raid and SSE patches
> > > already backported into 2.2.25?  I'm assuming Debian will continue to
> > > offer the 2.2 series.  If so, and if .25 doesn't already contain them,
> > > the raid and SSE patches are important, I think -- the vm-global much
> > > less so.  I can update these for the last 2.2 kernel if desired.
> > 
> > The point of this cleanup is that Debian 3.1 will ship with
> > kernel 2.4 and 2.6, but not with kernel 2.2.
> > 
> > The security team has already stated that they will not support three 
> > major versions of the kernel in Debian 3.1.
> 
> I'm sorry, I missed that statement, where did it occur?

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/debian-devel-200403/msg01495.html

cu
Adrian

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