On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:42:43PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:54:57AM -0800, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > > Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 01:11:34PM +0800, Mo Zhen Guang wrote: > > > > as always, security update may be troublesome with testing distribution. > > > > stable is much easier > > > > Mo > > > > > > > > > > Version: 2.2.20-2 > > > Provides: kernel-image > > > Depends: fileutils (>= 4.0) > > > > > > What version of fileutils is in potato? > > > > > > All that the package supplies is the kernel. It will be as stable as any > > > other kernel package wheather it is in stable or not (it's the official > > > 2.2.20) so what's your prob? Maybe you should check before you assume that > > > just because it's in testing that it's not stable. > > > > I'll keep that in mind. If it is really that difficult for it to go > > through the process to become formalized as stable, then is that > > difficulty all wasted effort? > > Debian's release/revision (from stable to stable) process is much slower > than the kernel's. That's a known fact. > > If you want to wait... that's up to you. If you want more recent stuff > (including kernels packaged by debian) you should use testing. [ not sure if the mail-followup-to: header is supposed to cc: two ppl; if not I apologize ] Erm, I don't quite follow this. If you need the new PHP, then yes, testing is about your only out. But if all you need is a new kernel, what's wrong with grabbing the kernel source from kernel.org and compiling using make-kpkg? New kernel, all the benefits of debian packaging ... Regards, -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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