On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 09:25:20PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:58:06PM +0200, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > > There was no final decision if we ship 2.4.27 with sarge. > > I wonder what needs to happen to have a formal d-k decision. > Do other subgroups of Debian have a mechanism for this? Maybe we > need a designated person or persons who can speak for each arch. > (Please only reply to debian-kernel on this topic).
Well, ultimately, the decision is with the RMs. But i guess you are as good as any to take that decision. > > If you now build and upload linux-kernel-di-alpha 0.62 with 2.4.27, > > you have to build 0.63 that downgrades linux-kernel-di-alpha back to > > 2.4.26 if we don't use 2.4.27 for sarge. 0.61 can't be used for sarge > > because it was built with kernel-source-2.4.26 2.4.26-2.1 which has > > some security problems which were fixed later. > > The only thing questionable about it, afaict, is the ide dma issue[1], which > appears to have been a problem with our patch set[2], so should be resolvable. Let's solve this, and go for 2.4.27 then. Seems the more reasonable course of action to me. Naturally i still need to produce 2.4.27 powerpc packages, will do so nextly. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
