Hi, This has been a long time in the coming, but I'm happy to report that we are slowly, but very surely making progress towards being able to release a round of security updates for Sarge.
These updates were actually prepared a little while ago, but it has taken us a little while to work with the Security team to get them into shape. Hopefully it won't take so long the next time around, which will likely kick off as soon as this round concludes. The reason that I am writing is to solicit help in testing. Some minor problems have been found, and mostly fixed, but the more testing the merrier. What we are looking for is problems that have been _introduced_ by the security updates. Particularly problems like, the system now fails to boot because vmlinuz is missing. The status of the architectures is: * Still needs fixing, should happen real soon now kernel-image-2.4.27-arm wrong distribution, needs fix, random changes kernel-patch-2.4.27-mips needs mipsel -> buildd, pending * Recently fixed, in the most need of testing kernel-image-2.4.27-ia64 kernel-image-2.4.27-alpha kernel-image-2.6.8-alpha kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.8 * Not recently updated, already had some testing kernel-image-2.6.8-sparc kernel-image-2.4.27-sparc kernel-image-2.6.8-hppa kernel-image-2.6.8-i386 kernel-image-2.4.27-i386 kernel-image-2.6.8-m68k kernel-image-2.4.27-m68k kernel-image-2.4.27-s390 kernel-patch-2.4.27-powerpc kernel-image-2.6.8-ia64 kernel-image-2.6.8-s390 kernel-image-2.6.8-amd64 You can find the images, and corresponding source in http://kernel.debian.net/debian/pool/main/ And the archive is apt-gettable using: deb http://kernel.debian.net/debian/ sarge-proposed-security-updates main deb-src http://kernel.debian.net/debian/ sarge-proposed-security-updates main If you know of new security bugs, and they aren't in http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/kernel/patch-tracking/?rev=0&sc=0 then send a note here, to the testing-security team, or open a bug in the BTS. -- Horms -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
