Re: Bug#239703: About to remove kernel-patch-2.2.20-p3
Greetings, and please excuse my tardy replies -- as you can tell I've
got quite a bit of work right now.
If it has been decided that 2.2 will only be in the archive for m68k,
then I think we can just drop all these patches. I'm a wee bit
disappointed at this decision, though, as the main reason for keeping
the older kernels around is to work with old machines with very
limited resources, i.e. quasi-embedded. Can one get 2.4 and 2.6 into
tiny enough form to run a 486 with a floppy only? I actually have a
system like this, and the latest kernel I could get to fit was 2.0.36.
In this sense, the kernels, unlike most other software, are not
strictly backward compatible, i.e. there is a loss of functionality on
upgrade. My suggestions would be to leave the kernel source packages
in the distro, but just to state that there will be no further
security work on these.
Just my $0.02.
Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> writes:
> * Camm Maguire (camm@enhanced.com) [040423 23:40]:
> > Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> writes:
> > > I agree on removing the package. So, if no-one disagrees, I'm going to
> > > reassign this bug to ftp.d.o next weekend.
>
> > At least some of the functionality in my 4 packages appears to be
> > missing from the latest 2.2 kernel. A simple cleanup would restore
> > the patch against 2.2.25, and allow SSE instructions. I understand
> > that the state of the art in kernel patch packages has changed, and
> > version specific packages are deprecated in favor of some other
> > mechanism. I will try to read up on this -- pointers appreciated. In
> > short, I have no objection to the removal of the packages unless their
> > presence would facilitate an update of the package contents to the
> > latest kernel, which I would like to effect, at least in the p3 and
> > raid cases.
>
> My question is really who needs this. 2.2 is probably going to be
> dropped on !m68k (so that the work for the security team is lower) and
> deprecated on m68k (only used for the subarchs that can't work with
> 2.4 and 2.6), so that the patch for PIII-processors could be dropped.
> Same is valid for the raid-patch.
>
> For the *vm-global*-patch: Well, even if this one is useful on that
> m68k-subarch (I can't judge), you need to upload a source package with
> another name.
>
> So, I'd like to reassign all bugs to ftp.d.o, and if the
> vm-global-patch is useful then please upload a
> kernel-patch-2.2.25-vm-global, or speak with the maintainer to
> incorporate that patch into kernel-source-2.2.25.
>
> Is that ok for you?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Andi
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