Steve Langasek wrote, among other stuff:
>As I touched on briefly on IRC, there is an upcoming kernel security >fix that requires a bit of discussion. It appears that one of the >security fixes that was included in kernel-source-2.6.8 2.6.8-14 (and >backed out, at least temporarily, in 2.6.8-15), changes the kernel >module ABI for a very small portion of the network stack. > >RC3 of Debian Installer is already being finalized, with only the CD >builds to finish up today and tomorrow; the ABI change is being held of >testing in the meantime. This leaves the following possible options: > >- Add the security fix in before sarge's release, with a change to the >package names to reflect the ABI change. This will probably require at >least a month to get all kernel images rebuilt and integrated into a >debian-installer RC4 build, during which time the sarge release would >be delayed.
Important question: is sarge *really* being released in the next 1 or 2 months? If not, there is no good reason not to do this. All the other stuff that is going on in sarge can be done in parallel with this, and d-i won't be the bottleneck.
Massa
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