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SubjectRe: 2.6.10-as1
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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>
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