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Re: kernel patch for "FULL FREEZE" branch /testing

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On 22.07.21 13:49, Tixy wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-07-22 at 12:23 +0200, Marco Möller wrote:
>> Hello everyone! The Debian development branch "bullseye"(/testing) is in
>> status "full freeze", if I am correctly informed, and packages from
>> /unstable are for quite some time already no more automatically moved
>> from /unstable to /testing.
>> Do you know how Debian handles situations like the current
>> CVE-2021-33909 patched kernel being already in /unstable but for sure
>> also /testing, the soon /stable, would benefit from receiving the patch
>> as provided in 5.10.46-2 ?
>> The patched version I am speaking about is this:
>> linux-image-5.10.0-8-amd64/unstable 5.10.46-2 amd64
>> In my "bullseye" installation, which I update daily, I still have
>> linux-image-5.10.0-7-amd64/testing,now 5.10.40-1 amd64
> 
> 5.10.46-2 is now in testing, I've just updated to it.
> 
> Presumably the process is as described in full freeze announcement,
> i.e. package developer makes unblock request to allow migration into
> testing and release team grant it if they think it meets the criteria
> for release.
> 

It meanwhile arrived also in the mirror which I am using. Nice.

So, although it is full freeze time, the former kernel with all its 
already known and tested functionality will not be specially patched, 
but the new kernel is taken although it besides containing the patch 
might also bring changed functionality?
Simply asking for curiosity, not that it would be of further importance 
for me.

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kernel patch for "FULL FREEZE" branch /testing Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2021-07-22 12:30 +0200
  Re: kernel patch for "FULL FREEZE" branch /testing Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2021-07-22 13:50 +0200
    Re: kernel patch for "FULL FREEZE" branch /testing Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2021-07-22 16:10 +0200
      Re: kernel patch for "FULL FREEZE" branch /testing Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2021-07-22 17:10 +0200
      Re: kernel patch for "FULL FREEZE" branch /testing "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-07-22 17:10 +0200

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