Debian, apus and recent security issues ...

[Sven L. <sve...@wa...>]

Hello,

As you may already know, there has been a security issue discovered,
which was fixed for debian/woody in : 

  http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-440

for the 2.4.17 kernels.

That said, the 2.4.20 kernel used in the testing/unstable -apus kernels
was not fixed, and has furthermore been mostly ignored since june 2003
or so, security wise. I think the debian security team thought that
those were already built from the powerpc kernels, and didn't need a
apus specific package, thus never adviced Michel. Backporting 6 month of
fixes to 2.4.20 would be lot of work, work most probably more
meaningful to spend integrating the apus patches into the powerpc
package, or forward port them to 2.4.24 or 2.4.25.

Ok, what i really want to know if there is an idea of how many people
still use apus, and of those, how many use the debian kernels, and from
those, which distribution and which kernel do you use.

Geert, is the linux-m68k/linux-apus counting web page still active ? 

Furthermore, i don't have apus hardware anymore, so i would welcome
someone who would like to test those kernels for me, once i build them.
Simon, maybe you could do that ? Which kernels do you use ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther