Re: *** SPAM *** Re: Kernel Security Updates for Sarge

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:40:47AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> Sven Luther wrote:
> [snip]
> > > > 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.

Bah, you can just put the old kernels in a special d-i-area or whatever, and
the GPL will be just fine. It is not as if we where not able to get the
packages from snapshot.debian.net anyway.

Friendly,

Sven Luther