Re: Old kernel versions cleaned out of packages list

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 02:52:55PM +0200, Adi Kriegisch wrote:
> Dear maintainers,
> 
> I hope this is the correct mailing list for my issue:
> 
> Apparently all older kernel versions have been removed from Debian
> Security's Packages list some time on August 26th before 19:07[1].
> 
> As I completely understand that the debian-security service is no archive
> for very old packages (like linux-image-5.10.0-9 for example),
> I'd very much apprechiate to at least keep one older version listed there
> as Debian itself also prefers to keep at least two kernel versions installed.
> 
> The reason for this is that our monitoring system checks for packages not
> installed from a Debian repository and we got alerted for kernels
> linux-image-5.10.0-24 and linux-image-6.1.0-10.
> 
> Is there any chance to get at least one more kernel "back"? :)

They were cleaned up to make up space, as they are superseeded by
newer versions.

In future this might even happen more automatically and the old
package auto-decrufted from the archive once new version are present
in the archive.

Regards,
Salvatore