Re: [frankie@debian.org: Status of kernel-patches in sarge]
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 10:02:06PM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:35:59AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 10:04:02AM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> >
> > > The check shown below is almost complete (but for a couple of 2.2 patches
> > > and per-arch patches).
> > > I'm asking if mass bug report filing is opportune at this stage.
> > > IMHO patches which cannot be applied to debian kernel-sources are almost
> > > unuseful and should be removed from sarge...
> > >...
> >
> > I'd even ask whether all these patches are _really_ required for sarge.
> >
>
> Eh eh, maybe that could be ask for quite a lot of packages around in sarge :-)
>
> > Each of the patches might be broken by a security update for the
> > kernel and each of them requires security support.
> >
>
> I'd expect maintainers drop patches which are orphaned by the upstream
> or whose maintainance would be a problem...
The number of patches that do not apply shown in the initial message of
this thread shows that your expectation is wrong.
> Francesco P. Lovergine
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Adrian
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