On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:40:47AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > [snip] > > > > 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. > > s/sarge/t-p-u/ because of GPL cornercases.
Bah, you can just put the old kernels in a special d-i-area or whatever, and the GPL will be just fine. It is not as if we where not able to get the packages from snapshot.debian.net anyway. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
