On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:16:59PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > >> the fact that the mips/mipsel guys do their own thing in their own way is i > >> believe etch-RC though, and need to be solved in the next 6 month. > > > > That's a decision that needs to be made together with the people who will be > > doing security support for the kernel in etch. > > Debian's 2.6.8 kernel contains (including the upcoming sarge2 kernels) patches > for 107 distinct security problems with a CVE ID. Given that 2.6.8 was > introduced > in August 2004 and security support for Etch will end in December 2007 this > might very well be around 200 issues by the time support for Sarge fades out. > So, the bare numbers should make it pretty obvious why all archs should build > out > of the linux-2.6 package.
The real problem is, i believe, that Thiemo didn't really find the time of will to move the mips package to the common tree. he did have objections back last summer, but i believe we have dealt with all of them, or can shortly. I think it is only a matter of someone stepping in, and porting the mips/mipsel patches and configs to the linux-2.6 tree, which should not be a very outlandish amount of work, and i believe someone else than Thiemo could do this, not enabling it by default until Thiemo gave his approval or something, and be done with it. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
