Florian Ernst <florian_ernst@gmx.net> (2014-09-09): > Hello there, > > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 03:07:36AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 15:05 +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > > > This is the commit which is reverted in 3.2.58, which fixes these > > > issue: > > > > > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/bwh/linux-3.2.y.git/commit/?id=2e59f013993a74bf31366a59bcf36be830d0f058 > > > > Thanks. This should be included in a security update shortly. (Yes, > > even though it is not security-related.) > > Hmm, it was updated, and thanks for that. But the d-i kernel in Wheezy > wasn't updated accordingly: it is still based on 7.5, so right now > installing on such a device is only possible using the 7.4 installer. > > However, during such an installation, the most recent kernel from > security.debian.org will be installed and thus the system will boot. So > it's not all bad, yet still the common netboot scenarios which just have > the most recent installer available will break. :) > > I couldn't find any plans to update the installer with the most recent > Wheezy kernel, but I take it they exist? d-i is usually rebuilt against latest kernels (as in: available in stable-proposed-updates, be it because it was synced from security, or because maintainers uploaded a package to that suite) for point releases. If I'm not mistaken there were some known, bad regressions, and that's why that update/rebuild was skipped. Mraw, KiBi.
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