Bug#605090: update?

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Mon, 2015-09-14 at 17:23 -0400, micah wrote:
> Erinn Clark <erinn@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > I'm just wondering if there are any updates to this bug and in particular I'm
> > curious what could happen now that the grsecurity stable patches are only
> > available to sponsors. I still think getting grsec into Debian is a very
> > important and worthwhile goal, but we should begin discussing it again since I
> > believe there is more momentum. (I'd like to participate if possible, as well.)
> 
> There was some discussion at the most recent Debconf about doing
> this. I wasn't there, but my understanding is that there were some
> discussions about how to move this forwards... Maybe Jake can fill us in
> with the details?

There were several discussions with various people involved; the result
as I understand it was that a linux-grsecurity package is likely to be
acceptable in unstable (only) and Jacob would be ready to work on such a
package in Debian.  I offered to help him with initial packaging, but
not to be a maintainer.

The recent change in distribution of grsecurity patches for stable
kernel branches should not affect this.

Ben.