[kernel-sec-discuss] improved upstream tracking
Moritz Muehlenhoff
jmm at inutil.org
Mon Nov 16 23:26:01 UTC 2009
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 04:53:37PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> since it has been quite useful tracking upstream stable releases lately,
> would it make sense to give that it's own line. right now, the
> 'upstream' line is often very cluttered. an example improvement would
> be:
>
> upstream-mainline: released (2.6.32-rc4) []
> upstream-stable: released (2.6.31.5) []
>
> or since there are multiple stable releases:
>
> 2.6.27-upstream-stable:
> 2.6.30-upstream-stable: released (2.6.30.8) []
> 2.6.31-upstream-stable: released (2.6.31.5) []
>
> linux-next could also be tracked, but i don't know if that would
> provide anything useful:
>
> upstream-next: pending []
>
> the boilerplate could be updated in sync with upstream changes; i.e when
> an old upstream-stable is no longer supported, it would be removed from
> the boilerplate, and when a new upstream-stable is released it gets
> added to boilerplate.
>
> just some thoughts on streamlining things. let me know what you
> think.
It's only causing overhead for hardly any gain.
Cheers,
Moritz
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