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Re: Kernel Security Updates for Sarge



On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 10:07:06AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> Horms wrote:
> [snip]
> > For reference, these are the architectues that I believe
> > the kernel team handles, and the version of the kernel source
> > they are using in Sarge:

> >                 Base kernel source version of package in Sarge
> > 2.4.27: alpha      kernel-tree-2.4.27-9   (seems to be out of date in SVN)
> >         hppa       kernel-tree-2.4.27-8
> >         i386       kernel-tree-2.4.27-8
> >         ia64       kernel-tree-2.4.27-8
> >         mips       kernel-tree-2.4.27-8   (versioned dependancy needs to be
> >                                            changed to kernel-tree-2.4.27-8)

> mips/mipsel uses the kernel-source package as build dependency
> instead of kernel-tree.

> [snip]
> > The changelogs that I would like you to look at are as follows.
> > Almost all of the changes will be in kernel-source, and I believe 
> > that the log is accurate. There are also changelogs for each
> > architecture, but these are generally just packaging and kernel-config
> > changes:
> [snip]
> >   mips: version in Sarge: 2.4.27-8.040815-1
> >   http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/kernel/trunk/kernel-2.4/mips/kernel-patch-2.4.27-mips-2.4.27/debian/changelog?op=file&rev=0&sc=0

> mips/mipsel has four additional changes which should go in sarge:
> - Fix broken ptrace
> - Fix Cobalt PCI bridge initialisation
> - Work around crashes on Cobalt under I/O load
> - Fix crash on startup on serial-less Cobalts

All of which seem to be out of scope in a discussion about security uploads,
don't they?

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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