Re: RFC: kernel packages cleanup

[Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Anyway, for purposes of security updates, part of the problem seems to be
> that m68k compilation is somewhat slow. To fix that, we can either accept
> that $SLOW_ARCH's security uzpdates will be late, or cross-compile the
> kernel on $FAST_ARCH.

>From a security point of view slowliness is no problem.  Just check when
the m68k updates to recent kernel problems were released and when other
architectures made it.

The number of different source packages and versions that have to
be reviewed and fixed is the problem.

Regards,

	Joey

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