On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:58:17 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 05:24:53PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:08:58 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> >> > On 29/08/12 17:28, Camaleón wrote: >> >> It does not matter that Lenny is out of support (formerly codenamed >> >> "oldstable") because even the current stable release (Squeeze) >> >> neither get kernel upgrades (for kernel upgrades I mean going from >> >> 2.6.26 to 2.6.32 or 3.x branch, for instance). Kernel upgrades in >> >> Debian only happen in testing (until becomes frozen) and sid. >> >> >> > Unless there's an upgrade to fix a security issue, I believe? >> >> Sure, that's what I said in an earlier post¹ ;-) > > LOL, come on ... nice try though. Hey! we all make misteaks
Sure, but -sadly you- not this time :-) >> But still security updates for the kernel keep the same branch >> (2.6.32), they can't jump so far because of compatibility (ABI) issues. > > Huh? For a start, the fix is backported so that only the problematic > code is corrected. Not all kernels are vulnerable to the same security > fault, hence a vulnerability in a 3.x kernel doesn't mean that it > affects kernels in the 2.6.26 - 2.6.32 range. Uh? You missed something? We were not talking about that. >> ¹http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/08/msg01890.html > > No mention about security support in that post either ..., or was it in > another thread? Are you wearing your glasses now? Sure? Okay, here it goes (this is a copy/paste of my own reply) ;-) *** No, of couse, because as it happens with any "stable" release, Lenny did not provide a kernel upgrade (other than patches) from their usual repo. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ *** Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k22g0s$vnl$8...@ger.gmane.org
