What's the plan for the linux-ports source package?

Dan Munckton lists at munckfish.net
Mon Jun 2 08:28:03 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 20:10 -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 09:42 +0100, Dan Munckton wrote:
> > Hi Ben
> > 
> > I've noticed a new linux-ports source package has appeared both on
> > kernel.ubuntu.com [0] and on LP [1].
> > 
> > Is there a plan to keep a totally separate linux source shared only by
> > the "community maintained" ports?
> 
> Yes. Only the primary flavors in i386 and amd64 will be supported in the
> main package.

So how will security/feature updates be synced between the two kernels?
Who would be responsible for that - kernel team or someone from one of
the ports teams?





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