Debian Unstable & Grsec

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Debian Unstable & Grsec
\ Roman Medina-Heigl Hernandez (5 Sep 2005)

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Subject:	Debian Unstable & Grsec
Group:	Debian-security
From:	Roman Medina-Heigl Hernandez
Date:	5 Sep 2005

Hello,

The other day I updated my system (Debian Sid, with self-compiled 2.4
vanilla kernel + grsec patch) to latest packages, including glibc
2.3.5-6 and it got broken. Yes, it is a known issue:
http://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?t=1152
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/08/msg00747.html

But my question is:
- why is Debian not supporting such a great security enhancement like Grsec?
- is somebody using the following unofficial workaround?
"libc6-2.3.5 has arrived unstable some days ago... still broken...
but there's a deb-repository with a fixed glibc and other fixed packages...
deb http://debian.linux-systeme.com unstable main
(it's from the maintainer of the 2.2 kernel series, i guess"
- is it planned to release *official* Sid's fixed-glibc packages?

Thanks in advance for your clarifications.

Regards,
-Roman

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