On Sunday 27 May 2007 12:41, Josip Rodin wrote: > It seems to me that Frans may have been referring to whether it's > relevant to add other stuff into sarge's *debian-installer*. No, I wasn't, or at least not primarily. As we have to update the installer anyway because of the kernel ABI change in the security update, including these changes as well is trivial and I doubt they will have any real impact on the installer. My concern is more general. Sarge is oldstable, which means really low-level maintenance, normally limited to security updates. Introducing functional changes in the kernel at this point which could potentially lead to regressions for some users just seems like something we should be very careful about. Would we really want to do _another_ kernel update to fix regressions if they should occur? As I've said in an earlier post, users affected by these issues will already have found workarounds or applied necessary patches themselves.
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