On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Martin Pitt wrote: > When Debian claims to ship kernels with security patches, then another > Debian package should not silently remove them; that would be very > dangerous (and IMHO silly). I could live with this solution if such an > unpatch is verbosely announced to the user (let's say, with a debconf > note of priority high).
No. a debconf note during *installation* has nothing to do with the actual application of a kernel patch, nor the sebsequent building thereof.
