Hi Juergen,

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 07:13:20AM +0200, Juergen Strobel wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 01:05:15PM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> > As reported in http://people.debian.org/~frankie/kernel-patches-checks.txt, 
> > kernel-patch-cryptoloop does not
> > apply clean to a current kernel-source. If you think this package is anyway 
> > useful at least with
> > an up-to-date vanilla kernel and sure that it apply properly, feel free to 
> > document this in the 
> > package and reduce the severity of this report, else this kernel-patch will 
> > be hinted for 
> > removing in sarge.

> > See also this ML thread about the issue:

> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2005/05/msg01325.html

> I have fixes for this, but I lost contact to my mentor long ago and
> gave up on it, therefore I cannot upload them.

> Very few people are using this (~10-30 maybe), and they can get it 
> from my site directly. This is only useful for 2.4 kernels, 2.6 has
> something better integrated. Upstream is dead.

> Maybe it is best to drop this package, even if just to drop
> another responsibility of the security team.

Ok, I'll go ahead and remove it from testing.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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