Bug#929557: Some Thoughts

2019-06-17 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
On Thu, 06 Jun 2019 12:19:03 -0400 Sam Hartman wrote: > > The linux Kernel introduced an upstream commit designed to remove an > interface that was being misused. No, it was removed as part of code cleanup. There was no “misuse”. It was added for KVM and existed for 7 years. KVM hasn’t needed

Bug#929557: Some Thoughts

2019-06-06 Thread Sam Hartman
The linux Kernel introduced an upstream commit designed to remove an interface that was being misused. That does not meet the kind of requirements for changes that we (Debian) make in stable releases. If I filed an unblock for krb5 to remove an interface at this point in the release process it