Re: kernel-image 2.4 i386 update

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:17:46PM -0600, dann frazier wrote:
> I just realized that having this package may add load to the security
> team by increasing the number of packages they need to rebuild.  Normally
> a kernel-image update uses the same package name as the current version
> (thus no new kernel-latest is needed) but in the case of an ABI change,
> this name changes.  Of course, how often does a security update change the
> ABI?  I believe it did once w/ a ptrace exploit in woody.

Or the O_DIRECT fix.  It'll happen as soon as things get nasty.