Re: Fwd: [SECURITY] [DLA 3173-1] linux-5.10 security update
On Wed 02 Nov 2022 at 13:53:24 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 12:45:57PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> > > > On 2022-11-02 03:40, Anssi Saari wrote:
> > > >> Looks like a linux-5.10 source package was indeed added to Buster in
> > > >> August and as you noted, it's getting security updates too.
>
> > I'm just curious if this is the first time that a kernel _version_ bump
> > took place within the trajectory of a single Debian version? Or have kernel
> > _version_ changes always taken place at debian release boundaries before?
>
> It's important to note that this is an optional, newer kernel image.
> Users who've just been running buster from the beginning may not even
> know about it, and it will have no effect on them.
>
> It's very much UNlike the version bumps on, say, samba that have happened
> mid-stable-release in the past.
>
> I'm fairly certain other releases have had optional kernel packages
> added to them, but I can't name any other than "etch-and-a-half" off
> the top of my head.
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/EtchAndAHalf
>From my notes,
slink was 2.0.3n, but 2.2 was runnable, and I built a 2.2.10. It was
kernel-image back then, presumably as there was no hurd.
potato was 2.2.19, but it appears there were 2.4 ones around too. I'm
not sure where the latter originated, but perhaps the name of one of
the sources, kernel-source-2.4.9-0.bunk, might be a clue.
sarge had 2.4.27 and 2.6.8 kernels, but the latter might not have been
all archs.
etch was all 2.6.
AFAICT lenny was still 2.6 when I built my last kernel, 2.6.26lucy.
While these are all version 2.x, AIUI everything changed after that.
So the x in 2.x is really equivalent to the first digit nowadays,
except of course that x had to increment by 2 each time.
Cheers,
David.
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