On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 04:18:28PM +0200, Jan Luehr wrote: > Well, looking back at woody, kernel updates appear infrequently and not that > often. I can remeber that we asked for a kernel-update but nothing came > around.
I can't speak for the stable security team; but I suspect it was a lack of resources. The kernel story in woody was a mess - 10 kernel-source packages, plus at least two architectures that included their own source. Sarge is a lot more sane (2 kernel-source packages), and etch is looking like it will be even more manageable (1 source package with autobuildable images). > Btw. Why do a lot of DSAs care about oldstable, while kernel-updates avoid > woody? We've prepared updates for oldstable: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernelWoodyUpdateStatus Though there were problems with these getting uploaded - I'm not sure what the current status of this is. I also haven't heard any feedback from users about woody updates - I can only assume that there are not many security-concerned users running woody kernels these days, or they just don't read d-d-a/planet... or they just remain silent. Note that woody security support ends next month, so there probably won't be anything beyond this update. -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
