hoary kernel point release

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

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Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Fabio Massimo Di Nitto [2005-05-17  7:20 +0200]:
> 
>>Right now I have been informed by upstream that one of the SATA patches
>>that are inside our tree is extremely dangerous and it can cause data corruption.
>>There is no update to that patch so it must to be reverted.
>>the impact of this fix is pretty high unfortunatly. It seems to introduce an ABI change
>>and it will kill 2 modules from our tree. The 2 modules are not used by d-i so that
>>makes things a bit better.
> 
> 
> The two modules are the SATA ones, I presume?

Yes as in https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6109

>  
> 
>>A few minutes ago we found a bug on how our initrd is builded and due to this bug
>>the capability module is not added to the initrd as it should. The module is still
>>loaded at a later stage but this is not optimal.
> 
> 
> Hm, should it be in /etc/modules? On my system it's not, and it isn't
> loaded automatically on demand; is this already fixed in Breezy?

No it should be part of the initrd and it is not.

> 
> 
>>My suggestion is to get 34.1 out with the 4 security fixes that we have been working
>>on (so we don't delay warty) and prepare a 35 to go in -updates together with linux-meta
>>and the whole dance of the abi change.
> 
> 
> That works for me. We never really agreed upon a versioning schema for
> -updates, it should be a different one than the development release
> scheme.

We can probably keep using point releases for -updates too. I really don't mind.

> However, since the kernel already has a special versioning
> scheme and we use 2.6.12 for Breezy, I don't have a problem with
> calling it -35. I think your approach is fine; we need a separate
> security update anyway.

I am pretty sure we will obsolete 2.6.10 in breezy soon, so i really
don't feel the need of spending time in fixing it.
Note that .12 is not the default yet.

Fabio

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