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Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy



On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 10:24:40AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On mar., 2012-01-31 at 11:01 -0500, micah anderson wrote:
> > What is stopping you from creating another package, that provides the
> > kernel with grsecurity patches applied? Don't bother the kernel team
> > with it, and just maintain it yourself in the archive? Its free software
> > afterall. 
> > 
> 
> Honestly, having multiple linux source package in the archive doesn't
> really sound like a good idea. I don't really think the kernel team
> would appreciate, I'm pretty sure ftpmasters would disagree, and as a
> member of the security team, It's definitely something I would object.

Well, that's what we have the 'linux-source' packages for: to allow
other packages to build-depend on them.

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