Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > I believe we could have released a version of Debian containing OpenSSH > 2, Xfree86 4.x, and kernel 2.4.x by now had we decided that such a thing > was important. It's important to me, as I'm sure it is to a good number > of other Debian users and developers.
Agreed. I always feel guilty saying something like this without volunteering to do some of the work, but I feel that it shouldn't be that difficult to perhaps target a development branch at the current development kernel, keeping it as stable as possible so that there is minimal delay when the kernel is released. The kernel seems to be the most important thing in this regard, possibly along with libc - that's where the dependencies seem to start from, so having those up to date should make it relatively painless to update whatever bits of the rest of the system are important. All from the perspective of someone who watches but doesn't participate in the development process, so I could be way off the mark :-) Richard
