Bug#297811: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Steve, On Tuesday 05 April 2005 16:54, Steve Langasek wrote: To reiterate our discussion on IRC, I don't think this addresses my concerns, which are that: - Nothing in the package (binary or source) uniquely identifies the kernel-source patchlevel used (including the added ABI name, since

Bug#297811: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Joey, On Tuesday 05 April 2005 18:26, Martin Schulze wrote: Howto handle security fixes for fai-kernels --- fai-kernels uses the kernel-source-2.4.27 and kernel-source-2.6.8 packages. If these packages get updated with a security fix,

Bug#297811: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Holger Levsen wrote: Hmmm... the only mail address for stable security support on http://www.debian.org/intro/organization is [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] didnt seem appropriate to me. What's wrong with that address? Would that have been a better address ? Yes. Regards,

Bug#297811: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, btw, no need to cc: me, i'm subscribed to release, the bug and the package :-) On Tuesday 05 April 2005 16:54, Steve Langasek wrote: - Nothing in the package (binary or source) uniquely identifies the kernel-source patchlevel used (including the added ABI name, since ABI name !=

Bug#297811: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 07:18:06PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: On Tuesday 05 April 2005 16:54, Steve Langasek wrote: - Nothing in the package (binary or source) uniquely identifies the kernel-source patchlevel used (including the added ABI name, since ABI name != patchlevel) as we now

Bug#297811: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-05 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, to fix #297811, which is about adding the kernel abi version number to fai-kernels (which is only build on i386 currently, powerpc is pending) to be able to do security support for fai-kernels in sarge, I made the following changes and I would like to ask on the release managers and

Bug#297811: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-05 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Holger, On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 12:35:44PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: to fix #297811, which is about adding the kernel abi version number to fai-kernels (which is only build on i386 currently, powerpc is pending) to be able to do security support for fai-kernels in sarge, I made the

Bug#297811: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Holger Levsen wrote: Howto handle security fixes for fai-kernels --- fai-kernels uses the kernel-source-2.4.27 and kernel-source-2.6.8 packages. If these packages get updated with a security fix, fai-kernels needs to be rebuild. The

Bug#297811: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Steve Langasek wrote: - Nothing in the source or binary package names matches the kernel.*2\.(4\.27|6\.8) regexp that I've been using so far to identify the kernel packages requiring attention I have no knowledge of how important the latter is to the security team; they may not be bothered