Rob Bradford wrote: > I think we should push this matter through with an updated kernel in a 3.0r3 > update before the release of sarge. People could then upgrade to that before > upgrading to sarge. And in my opinion would make the upgrade process much > simpler and more straightforward. And as respect to security updates, this > will > need to be maintained as long as woody support is maintained.
Adding new features to the kernel in stable besides closing security bugs is not an option for Debian stable. Apart from that, it's very questionable if there will ever be another update to the current stable Debian release. Hence, you must not depend on it actually happening. Besides that, it's still not a guarantee that our 80386 users will install the kernel prior to updating to sarge. And just to add more annoyances, we already have the problem with kernel-image-2.4.18 != kernel-image-2.4.18-1 for Debian stable and proposed-upgrades. Where did you want to apply the i486 emulation? Regards, Joey -- Everybody talks about it, but nobody does anything about it! -- Mark Twain Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.