Re: Kernel Security Updates for Sarge

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:07:45AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > Steve Langasek wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > > 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?
> 
> > It would make little sense to do separate uploads for them.
> 
> It is nevertheless necessary, according to the security team's historical
> policy on security uploads.  You can upload whatever you want to
> testing-proposed-updates, *right now*, but it doesn't do our users any good
> until r1 unless we also get something uploaded to testing-security that will
> be accepted and actually made available for download.

I try to avoid uploading kernels with known security bugs, and a fixed
kernel source package isn't available yet.


Thiemo

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