On Friday 02 February 2007 06:49, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What i am saying is: is it possible to in a lenny or lenny++ change the > > way debian upgrades it's stable, just for the kernel? > > There are few plans how to add one more kernel in the middle of Etchs > life time to support more hardware - reality will show us how good we > match that.
Is it certain that a kernel alone will be enough? Might there be changes required to x.org, fdisk, udev, hal, and other things for new hardware? Another possible reason for a new package is discovering bugs in code that has potential security issues. Currently we release new packages to fix security problems, but AFAIK we don't fix potential issues. I recall the mremap() kernel security issue that was discovered by the bad guys after it was fixed as a non-security issue in the kernel.org repository. Maybe some similar fixes could be candidates for inclusion. What about documentation changes? If package foo-doc changes then it has little potential for serious regression, and if the old version of the document was misleading in a bad way then it could justify an upgrade. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://etbe.blogspot.com/ My Blog http://www.coker.com.au/sponsorship.html Sponsoring Free Software development -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
