On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 10:04:40AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 03:57:22PM +0100, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > > > I will probably use the -benh tree for future official debian kernels > > > > > > Please keep in mind that kernel-patch-benh exists already. You should > > > > Well, my plan was to let 2.4.22 stay at the linuxppc tree, jump over > > 2.4.23, and have 2.4.24 and beyond based on the -benh tree. But has been > > stopped of doing this by the inability of extracting a clean 2.4.24 > > version of the -benh (or linuxppc for that matter) bitkeeper tree, since > > nobody actually tagged it properly in the mess that followed the hasty > > 2.4.24 release. If you like, i would not be adverse to you becoming > > co-maintainer of the kernel-patch package or something. > > What about taking the PPC 2.4.23 tree and applying the 2.4.24 patch, and > manually fixing the rejects (if any)?
Yeah, i was also thinking of that. I will check if i can find a proper tag for 2.4.23. Anyway, the patch between 2.4.23 and 2.4.24 is mostly tiny, since it includes not much more than the security fix. Friendly, Sven Luther
