Re: Debian Libre - blend/pureblend/derivative?
On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 10:22:44AM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> writes:
>...
> > Nope. Neither do we add multiple copies of the same source, nor is this
> > package security supportable by definition.
>
> I think that is a subjective statement. Debian ship the same source
> many times over already with all vendored code in the archive. Debian
> also ship packages that does not come with security support, e.g., most
> of the Rust/Go eco-systems. I hear your desire not to have more of that
> though (which I agree with).
How big is the libre patch, and how likely is it to break due to changes
on a kernel LTS branch?
If the patches are small and unlikely to break on an LTS branch, you
could build a different kernel based on linux-source-<version> from
src:linux.
user-mode-linux is a precedent for that, up to buster with patches.
user-mode-linux is already rebuilt for point releases, security support
for static ecosystems will cover such packages also for DSAs.
Official libre live image for Debian 14 should then be possible.
> /Simon
cu
Adrian
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