Maurizio Lemmo - Tannoiser wrote:
On sabato 12 aprile 2003, alle 16:48, Markus Kolb wrote:Nono, that's not what I'm asking... My question is, literally, _why_ doesn't woody have such a patch? (I applied it on my systems, I'm just wondering why there isn't an official patch for this (Official for Debian).Perhaps, because there was no bug report against these packages?!There's a bug report.
Well I opened one. And it has been closed with this answer by Herbert Xu: # I have put fixed stable packages on # # http://auric.debian.org/~herbert/ # # I will also file for its removal from unstable. There is a 2.4.18-7 and it should be at security.debian.org, shouldn't it?
For what i can see, there's the 2.4.20-patched in proposed-updated. Maybe, this is the reason. Or, 'cause the patch is actually a workaround, some software (say netsaints, or nagios, i don't remember), dislike this "new bugfix" and doesn't work.
But it can't be that Debian users have to look all around to get new secure kernel packages. Very strange...