Re: Debian, apus and recent security issues ...

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

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:31:28AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> 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 ? 

Mmm, i wonder what is the latest 2.2 kernel to run apus ? Debian 2.2
apus kernel in woody is 2.2.10 only, while other powerpc is 2.2.20. Were
the apus patches ported to later 2.2 kernels or were there problems with
them ? 

Also, do someone of you still per chance has kernel-source-2.2.10 around ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther