Package: linux-patch-grsecurity2 Version: 2.9.1+3.2.21-201206221855-1 Severity: important
Hey, I noticed your upload of the latest Grsecurity patches to Debian. While I would very much like to have decent Grsecurity support in Debian, I'm not quite sure this package, in the current state, really helps that (I'm not sure shipping the patch itself makes sense anyway). Right now, the documentation mentions dh-kpatches and make-kpkg, and implies the patch could be applied to the Debian sources. That's just wrong. Right now, the only difference with downloading upstream sources directly seems to be that you lack the GPG signature. I guess you might want to tune the package, either to adapt it to debian sources, or to properly document how to build the kernel (replacing make-kpkg by make deb-pkg for example), or maybe something else. But I'm afraid right now the package, although now up2date, is just useless and confusing for users. Sorry if the tone is a bit rude, it's not intended, I'm very much interested in ways to improve Grsecurity support in Debian. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages linux-patch-grsecurity2 depends on: ii bash 4.2-2 ii dctrl-tools [grep-dctrl] 2.22.2 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.44 ii patch 2.6.1-3 Versions of packages linux-patch-grsecurity2 recommends: ii gradm2 2.9.1~201206091838-1 ii kernel-package 12.036+nmu2 pn linux-patch-debian-3.2 <none> ii linux-source-3.2 3.2.21-1 linux-patch-grsecurity2 suggests no packages. -- debconf information: * linux-patch-grsecurity2/2.1.3-security: * linux-patch-grsecurity2/2.1.2-security: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
