Re: 2.4.24 (and others) have vanished..
Mooie wrote:
> Hi all of you.
>
> Have posted this on debian-user as well, but got recommended to check
> here too. So, I do. :-)
>
> Installed a machine the other day with woody. Stable, no testing etc.
> Was using the same sources.list file that I have used in the past year
> or two. But with the big difference that I cannot find a later kernel
> version than 2.4.19 anylonger. Earlier, 2.4.24-1woody.1 have existed,
> but since the revision 2 and forward, they've not been marked woody.
>
> Simple question, why? Were they by mistake marked as stable, or?
They weren't in stable but in stable-proposed-updates.
Stable-proposed-updates contains packages wich the maintainer proposes
for inclusion in the next stable point release, and the stable release
manager selects from them the packages which meet the criteria for
inclusion in stable.
Completely new kernels have too many changes beyond security and
stability fixes, they will never go in a stable point release. The
maintainer shouldn't have uploaded them to stable-proposed-updates
in the first place.
> If continuing on the same problem, is there somewhere information about
> all packages that have existed through-out the history? With all
> versions, revisions etc.
http://snapshot.debian.net/
Note that those kernels are not supported, they won't get security
updates, and may have known fatal bugs.
Thiemo
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