On 12-Mar-99 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Shaleh wrote: > >> Once released, only absolutly necessary updates are made, i.e security >> issues. >> All new packages go into unstable (currently potato). >> > > I am curious: > What if a security problem is found with the kernel that ships with, for > example, slink, and the problem is only fixed in the 2.2.x kernel series. > You can't simply add a new kernel package to slink to fix the bug, because > kernel 2.2.x breaks some of the other packages included with slink. What > happens in this case? Are those packages upgraded too? >
Has not happened yet. Alan Cox is pretty good about keeping older kernels happy. There is a 2.0.37 due soon for instance. Find out when it happens. We may just say "time to upgrade".
