On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:58:06PM +0200, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > There was no final decision if we ship 2.4.27 with sarge.
I wonder what needs to happen to have a formal d-k decision. Do other subgroups of Debian have a mechanism for this? Maybe we need a designated person or persons who can speak for each arch. (Please only reply to debian-kernel on this topic). > If you now build and upload linux-kernel-di-alpha 0.62 with 2.4.27, > you have to build 0.63 that downgrades linux-kernel-di-alpha back to > 2.4.26 if we don't use 2.4.27 for sarge. 0.61 can't be used for sarge > because it was built with kernel-source-2.4.26 2.4.26-2.1 which has > some security problems which were fixed later. The only thing questionable about it, afaict, is the ide dma issue[1], which appears to have been a problem with our patch set[2], so should be resolvable. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2004/08/msg00790.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2004/08/msg00880.html
