Bug#970984: linux-image-5.8.0-2-amd64: Please replace console scrollback

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 07:33:49PM -0400, Asher Gordon wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 5.8.10-1
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: Asher Gordon <AsDaGo@posteo.net>
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> After upgrading to linux-image-5.8.0-2, I noticed that scrollback is no
> longer available in the console. A quick look at the changelog
> ('apt changelog linux-image-amd64') indicates that this was done to fix
> CVE-2020-14390. Surely however, there must be a better way to fix this
> than simply removing this code entirely?
> 
> It is pretty annoying not having scrollback, and I'm sure I'm not the
> only one who would like scrollback replaced.

Yeah, I'm also bitten by this for my day-to-day workflows, but unfortunately
this was removed upstream, this is not a Debian-specific patch, so this
needs to be fixed upstream, before it becomes available in Debian again.

Cheers,
        Moritz