Re: [PROPOSAL] Re: Which 2.4 kernel-source for sarge?

[dann frazier <dannf@debian.org>]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 12:01:32AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> ARM's 2.4.26 kernel in the archive apparently doesn't work while
> 2.4.27 in NEW has been tested to work.
> 
> Another argument for 2.4.27 is that some arches have kernels that can
> be taken as it for sarge (e.g. mips, arm); on the other hand, if we go
> with 2.4.26, we'd have to update all of them again by building them
> against a new 2.4.26 source package with the security fixes.

Another argument for 2.4.26 is that going to a releaseable 2.4.26 image
is just a rebuild of the existing 2.4.26 package, while some archs with 2.4.26
images don't already have 2.4.27 packages (m68, arm, sparc)[1].  Going with
2.4.27 would mean generating these new packages & going through the NEW queue
delay (which, to be fair, has been awfully quick for kernel stuff lately).
Once that has completed, we need new l-k-di packages (also a NEW delay) &
updates to svn, followed by a new d-i release.

This argument goes away once 2.4.27 kernels are made available on these
architectures (m68k, arm, sparc: I'm looking at you).  powerpc has neither
2.4.26 nor 2.4.27.

fai-kernels, mindi-kernel, and user-mode-linux will be missing build-deps
in sarge if we go to 2.4.27.  Staying with 2.4.26 means we only need to
update packages that would need to be updated anyway (i2c, lm-sensors, uclibc,
and xen). [2]

I wrote scripts to generate some data so that we can monitor some these issues:

Kernel images available for each arch in stable/sid:
  [1] http://people.debian.org/~dannf/kernel-stats/kernel-avail.html
Build-Dependencies on kernel source packages in sarge:
  [2] http://people.debian.org/~dannf/kernel-stats/kern-dep.html

Other things that would be useful to know:
 - Which version of the kernel source package was used to build this image?
   (Some packages build-dep on kernel-tree, but for others this info
    is difficult to detect)
 - d-i status - what kernel is being used in d-i svn?  what kernel is in
   the current rc?
   (Hard to determine)