Re: lenny-and-a-half?
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 09:53:21PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> [2009-11-22 21:52]:
> > > squeeze, and those packages should install fine in a lenny
> > > environment. We might be able to achieve a poor-man's lenny+half by
> > > asking users to use the squeeze installer to install lenny, and pull
> > > kernel updates from squeeze/squeeze-security?
> >
> > FWIW, that's what I'm planning to do for some ARM machines that are
> > not supported by lenny. I hacked d-i already to install the kernel
> > from my repo.
>
> ... the big problem with this is, of course, that the squeeze kernel
> doesn't seem to have any security support either.
I think that we can/should change that during the freeze - though it
is probably appropriate to fix the majority of security issues, which
tend to be of low severity, via sid w/ appropriate urgencies.
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