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Stable kernel 2.6.25.11

Stable kernel 2.6.25.11

Posted Jul 15, 2008 23:16 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Stable kernel 2.6.25.11 by spender
Parent article: Stable kernel 2.6.25.11

Nice snark. Still, it was unnecessary: oddly, I do know what text editors 
are.

However, the fact remains that editing the patch commit logs isn't done 
unless necessary, and the stable tree maintainers don't think that 
researching possible security implications, getting CVE info and so on is 
a good use of their time. In the absence of their doing this, the only way 
to enforce 'CVE info on everything' as you seem to want is the 
development-speed-devastating scheme I outlined two messages up. Of 
*course* this crazy scheme hasn't been adopted or even proposed, but that 
is the only way to do what you suggest as long as the stable team's job 
remains cherry-picking and applying patches that others write, rather than 
actually modifying the commit logs, and the stable team have said that 
this is what they consider their purpose to be.


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