Re: Kernel Security Updates for Sarge

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

Sven Luther wrote:
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> > > 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.
> 
> Notice though that the right way to fix these issues would be to make a new
> set of kernels available in sarge (even though they are not used by d-i), so
> that our users get the real thing, and not the patently broken and full of
> security issues kernel that we currently ship.

s/sarge/t-p-u/ because of GPL cornercases.


Thiemo