On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 01:24:52PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 11:20:38PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
need some further discussion among the m68k folks... does this also mean
that an etch installation will require a 2.6 kernel to run on the machine?
Some of the m68k buildds (most macs) are still running 2.2.25, the two Atari
Falcons run 2.4.
The long term aim is indeed to release etch with only 2.6 kernels, which means
no 2.4 but also no 2.2 kernel.
Now, the removal of the 2.2 kernel should follow the same roadmap as what was
discussed for the 2.4 kernels, and i suppose that for m68k purpose, you can
substitute '2.4' with '2.2 or 2.4' in all those emails.
There has been no DSA for a 2.2 kernel to date in the lifetime of
woody/sarge (counting on my recollection here, I'm currently offline),
so I can't see how we can continue shipping it unless someone steps up
to handle this. Of course, you could always request insecure status
from the release team (with proper release notes, etc).