Kernel 2.6 into Debian Unstable again?

[Andrej Marjan]

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 10:08:52PM -0500, Peter King wrote:
> I just checked: the 2.6 series of kernels are only available now in
> Debian Unstable, where previously up to 2.6.2 were in Testing. Does
> anyone know why they were reclassified?

They were probably buggy and/or not release targets for the next stable
version. Packages with release critical bugs are dropped from testing
all the time, when preparing the next stable release.

Also, versions before 2.6.3 had some serious local root exploits, so it
makes sense to drop them regardless. Maybe 2.6.3 will make it in.
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