On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 02:21:16AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:07:45AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > Steve Langasek wrote: > > [snip] > > > > mips/mipsel has four additional changes which should go in sarge: > > > > - Fix broken ptrace > > > > - Fix Cobalt PCI bridge initialisation > > > > - Work around crashes on Cobalt under I/O load > > > > - Fix crash on startup on serial-less Cobalts > > > > All of which seem to be out of scope in a discussion about security > > > uploads, > > > don't they? > > > It would make little sense to do separate uploads for them. > > It is nevertheless necessary, according to the security team's historical > policy on security uploads. You can upload whatever you want to > testing-proposed-updates, *right now*, but it doesn't do our users any good > until r1 unless we also get something uploaded to testing-security that will > be accepted and actually made available for download.
Notice though that the right way to fix these issues would be to make a new set of kernels available in sarge (even though they are not used by d-i), so that our users get the real thing, and not the patently broken and full of security issues kernel that we currently ship. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
