Re: kernel patch for "FULL FREEZE" branch /testing
On Thu, 2021-07-22 at 12:23 +0200, Marco Möller wrote:
> Hello everyone! The Debian development branch "bullseye"(/testing) is in
> status "full freeze", if I am correctly informed, and packages from
> /unstable are for quite some time already no more automatically moved
> from /unstable to /testing.
> Do you know how Debian handles situations like the current
> CVE-2021-33909 patched kernel being already in /unstable but for sure
> also /testing, the soon /stable, would benefit from receiving the patch
> as provided in 5.10.46-2 ?
> The patched version I am speaking about is this:
> linux-image-5.10.0-8-amd64/unstable 5.10.46-2 amd64
> In my "bullseye" installation, which I update daily, I still have
> linux-image-5.10.0-7-amd64/testing,now 5.10.40-1 amd64
5.10.46-2 is now in testing, I've just updated to it.
Presumably the process is as described in full freeze announcement,
i.e. package developer makes unblock request to allow migration into
testing and release team grant it if they think it meets the criteria
for release.
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Tixy
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