Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.10-as1 | From | Andres Salomon <> | Date | Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:26:00 -0500 |
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On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 11:09 +0100, Frank Steiner wrote: > Andres Salomon wrote > > > Hi, > > > > I'm announcing a new kernel tree; -as. The goal of this tree is to form > > a stable base for vendors/distributors to use for their kernels. In > > order to do this, I intend to include only security fixes and obvious > > bugfixes, from various sources. I do not intend to include driver > > updates, large subsystem fixes, cleanups, and so on. Basically, this is > > what I'd want 2.6.10.1 to contain. > > Very nice idea! Not only for distributors! Thanks for doing this! > Do you plan to maintain -as only for the latest release, i.e., will > 2.6.10-as still be maintained with security fixes even when 2.6.11-as > comes up? >
My plan is to include security fixes for a kernel or two behind what is the latest. Currently, I'm supporting (for Debian) 2.6.8 through 2.6.10. Of course, normally I wouldn't support 2.6.8 for this long, but since sarge will (hopefully?) be releasing someday, and this is the kernel chosen for it, I must continue support.
I do not plan to continue small bugfixes for older kernels too much longer after a new kernel is released; however, if people were to feed me patches for older kernels, I'd be more than happy to do releases.
-- Andres Salomon <dilinger@voxel.net> [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |