Binary demotions of kernel packages

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 08:00:12AM -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
> On 09/24/2010 09:56 AM, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
> >Hi All,

> >Matthias (doko) has inquired about binary demotions of kernel packages:

> >http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/component-mismatches.txt

> >The following link also has additional information:

> >https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArchiveAdministration#Component Mismatches and Changing Overrides

> >Source and binary demotions to universe
> >---------------------------------------
> >  * linux-linaro - I suspect we don't want this demoted to universe,
> >comments?

> >Source only demotions to universe
> >---------------------------------
> >  * linux-meta-linaro - Again I suspect we don't want this demoted to
> >universe, comments?

> >Binary only demotions to universe
> >---------------------------------
> >  * linux-backports-modules-2.6.35 - lbm has never been seeded but
> >shouldn't be demoted to universe.
> >  * linux-meta (lbm meta packages) - Again, shouldn't be demoted to
> >universe
> >  * linux-mvl-dove - I suspect we don't want this demoted to universe,
> >comments?
> >  * linux-ti-omap4 - I suspect we don't want this demoted to universe,
> >comments?

> The packages that are directly maintained by the kernel team should
> all be in main. I suspect linux-linaro _should_ be in universe since
> it is not strictly subject to SRU criteria and it is not maintained
> by the kernel team.

> Steve, Loic - do you have a strong opinion about this?

I had already told Matthias that this should be demoted.  It's not used in
any official Ubuntu images for this cycle, which is the criterion that
should drive main inclusion.  "Linaro uses it" should not by itself be a
driver for a difference in the Canonical support status of a package.

We would certainly appreciate the Ubuntu kernel team keeping linux-linaro on
the list of kernels for inclusion in maverick-security because I expect it's
much more efficient for these updates to be prepared together across the
multiple kernel packages; but Linaro itself has not committed to providing
security support for their 10.11 release so if this doesn't fit in your
plans for security updates, don't sweat it.

Anyway, the Linaro kernel packages have been demoted to universe now thanks
to Colin.

Cheers,
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