[Secure-testing-team] For discussion: security support strategy for the wheezy kernel

[Michael Gilbert]

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> What about introducing a new linux-2.6-stable kernel package as a
> compromise?  That way users that want stability and security support
> in testing continue to have that as an option.  Also, I will assume
> responsibility as the maintainer, so there will be hopefully very
> little impact to any other part of Debian.  Also, I can look at
> generating d-i media for this kernel.
>
> Any thoughts on that?  The only downside I can think of right away is
> introducing a huge code copy into the archive.

Also the same effect can be achieved by apt-pinning the squeeze kernel.

Best wishes,
Mike