Unrelated upates (eg hardware support) are pushed to feisty-security
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Launchpad itself |
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linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
I have enabled the feisty-security repository in order to receive security updates (as implied by the name). However, I had to find out the hard way that not only security updates are released, but also new hardware support and other unrelated additions. See https:/
Similar releases can be found in Dapper, eg 2.6.15-26.47 which was released to dapper-security. The changelog includes items like "sound/
I'm not sure of a better way to handle updates. There could be a special security-fixes-only tree for <release>-security and a normal tree with other changes (including the security fixes of course) for <release>-updates. Of course, this creates more work for the developers :( I'm sure someone can come up with a better workflow (if my bug doesn't get rejected).
I just find it hardly acceptable that package releases tagged as "security" break drivers. Of course, it's just me complaining right now about a rather obscure piece of hardware breaking but I'd be surprised if other users haven't been caught by similar regression in the past.
None of these are actual bugs on the kernel.