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Re: Are the patches from the recent DSAs incorporated into the current etch kernel?

From: Arne Nordmark <nordmark(at)mech.kth.se>
Date: Wed Jan 02 2008 - 10:49:57 EST

dann frazier wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:03:13AM +0100, Arne Nordmark wrote:

>> In the changelog of the current etch kernels (2.6.18.dfsg.1-17) I find an 
>> entry that patches from 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch4 has been merged, but there is 
>> nothing stating whether patches from 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch5 (DSA 1428) or 
>> 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch6 (DSA 1436) have been merged.
>>
>> Is this an omission in the changelog, or should one expect a new DSA soon?

>
> The changelog entries for 13etch5 and 13etch6 are included in the -17
> changelog, there just isn't an explicit separate note about the merge.
>

Right. I had assumed that the entries in the changelog were sorted by date (and thus expected to find them near the top), but apparently they are sorted by Debian version.

Sorry about the noise, and thanks for the clarification. Arne

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