Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > Synchronising security updates for several *distributions* (i.e. different > > source versions) is a pain. Sychronising for all architectures is quite > > easy as long as our great buildd network is in good shape. > > There's one area where the two are easily conflated -- kernel sources. > Historically, every architecture has its own kernel source etc.
This isn't the case any more for sarge. There is one kernel source for each 2.2, 2.4, and 2.6. > Hopefully, that will change -- the new kernel process is quite > amenable to integrating arch-specific changes, if they're sane. > This was different during 2.4's lifetime. Some architecture kernels still add an arch-specific patch (with decreasing size over the timeline), but most security issues are in generic code, so it won't hurt much. Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
