Debian Bug report logs - #310576
'kernel-patch-2.4-grsecurity' does not apply to any current sarge kernel

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@debian.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: 'kernel-patch-2.4-grsecurity' does not apply to any current sarge kernel

Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:21:12 +0200

Package: kernel-patch-2.4-grsecurity
Version: 1.9.15-2
Severity: grave
	
Dear László Böszörményi (GCS) 

As reported in http://people.debian.org/~frankie/kernel-patches-checks.txt, kernel-patch-2.4-grsecurity does not
apply clean to a current kernel-source. If you think this package is anyway useful at least with
an up-to-date vanilla kernel and sure that it applies properly, feel free to document this in the 
package and reduce the severity of this report, else this kernel-patch will be hinted for 
removing in sarge.

See also this ML thread about the issue:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2005/05/msg01325.html

--
Francesco P. Lovergine

Message #10 received at 310576@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Laszlo Boszormenyi <gcs@lsc.hu>

To: Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@debian.org>, 310576@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#310576: 'kernel-patch-2.4-grsecurity' does not apply to any current sarge kernel

Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 23:12:33 +0200

package kernel-patch-2.4-grsecurity
severity 310576 normal
thanks

Hi Francesco,

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 14:21 +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> As reported in http://people.debian.org/~frankie/kernel-patches-checks.txt, kernel-patch-2.4-grsecurity does not
> apply clean to a current kernel-source.
 Yes, it is known.

>  If you think this package is anyway useful at least with
> an up-to-date vanilla kernel and sure that it applies properly,
 Yes, but I will do a repeated check then.

>  feel free to document this in the 
> package
 Quoting /usr/share/doc/kernel-patch-2.4-grsecurity/README.2.4.2x :
"The grsecurity patch will *not* apply to Debian kernels following (and
including) 2.4.20. If you want to build a grsecurity-enabled kernel with
a version higher than or equal to 2.4.20, you should use a vanilla
kernel source tree from one of the kernel.org mirrors."

Also, there's even a debconf warning for this issue; see
debian/po/templates.pot in the source please. Is these steps
enough for you or should I add more warnings?

>  and reduce the severity of this report, else this kernel-patch will be hinted for 
> removing in sarge.
 I will reduce the severity at first, but I may ask for it's removal anyway.

> See also this ML thread about the issue:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2005/05/msg01325.html
 I will do it tomorrow, it's just middle of the night ATM.

Thanks for reporting anyway. Regards,
Laszlo/GCS

Message #17 received at 310576@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Max Vozeler <max@nusquama.org>

To: 310576@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#310576: 'kernel-patch-2.4-grsecurity' does not apply to any current sarge kernel

Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:48:10 +0200

Hi Laszlo,

On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 11:12:33PM +0200, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote:
> >  and reduce the severity of this report, else this kernel-patch will be hinted for 
> > removing in sarge.
>  I will reduce the severity at first, but I may ask for it's removal anyway.

Do you feel this package is still useful to have in etch? 

It seems, because etch will not include 2.4 kernels[0], that the
usefulness is much reduced. OTOH, there may be reasons to still
include it - just checking what you think about this.

cheers,
Max

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Message #22 received at 310576-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

To: 317348-done@bugs.debian.org, 312163-done@bugs.debian.org, 333405-done@bugs.debian.org, 310576-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Removed

Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:03:57 +0200

This package has been removed because it applies to the 2.4 kernel
only.

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/

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