Re: Kernel 2.4 for etch or not
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 23:18 +0100, maximilian attems wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
>
> > Holger Levsen wrote:
> > > Even though 2.4 is moving very slowly nowadays (mostly security updates,
> > > very seldom new drivers are including), this is more work than needed,
> > > because every fix needs to be backported to 2.4.27 (and 2.4.18 for woody).
> >
> > According to a linux-kernel posting by Marcelo Tosatti a few weeks ago 2.4
> > is now in strict maintenance mode, with only critical bug fixes being allowed.
> >
> > As of today several of the security fixes for 2.4 are already pushed upstream
> > by Dann or Horms, it's unreasonable to do so until 2010, when Sarge's oldstable
> > support will fade out.
>
> indeed both seem to do most of the 2.4 security support,
> more than upstream does.
>
> so there word should count the most concerning an eventual 2.4 in etch.
Security support for 2.4 is already becoming difficult; I really
wouldn't want to support it in the etch timeframe.
Clearly we'll have to drop support for 2.4 at some point - I vote for
when security support for sarge stops (after its lived out its oldstable
lifespan).
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