Bug 509864

Summary:	sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.13.x removal
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Stuart Shelton <srcshelton>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Stuart Shelton 2014-05-08 16:46:28 UTC

Commit 1.1312 has ChangeLog:

5  07 May 2014; Mike Pagano <mpagano@gentoo.org> -gentoo-sources-3.2.55.ebuild,
6	  -gentoo-sources-3.2.57.ebuild, -gentoo-sources-3.4.85.ebuild,
7	  -gentoo-sources-3.4.86.ebuild, -gentoo-sources-3.4.87.ebuild,
8	  -gentoo-sources-3.4.88.ebuild, -gentoo-sources-3.10.36.ebuild,
9	  -gentoo-sources-3.10.37.ebuild, -gentoo-sources-3.10.38.ebuild,
10	  -gentoo-sources-3.12.16.ebuild, -gentoo-sources-3.12.17.ebuild,
11	  -gentoo-sources-3.13.9.ebuild, -gentoo-sources-3.13.10.ebuild,
12	  -gentoo-sources-3.13.11.ebuild, -gentoo-sources-3.13.9999.ebuild,
13	  -gentoo-sources-3.14.0.ebuild, -gentoo-sources-3.14.1.ebuild:
14	  Gentoo sources cleanup

... yet I have systems which are using 3.13 features, but for which 3.14 does not work correctly - and I'm sure I'm not alone.

Was removing all trace of 3.13 a typo, or is there some huge vulnerability in this release that I'm not yet aware of and which requires it to be entirely removed?

Comment 1 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-05-08 18:43:36 UTC

3.13.x is EOL, consider to downgrade to 3.12.x; I'm not sure about the specific removal and I guess the latest version might be considered for reinstating, there are indeed quite some regressions in 3.14.x from a quick scroll through the LKML.

Comment 2 Mike Pagano gentoo-dev

2014-05-09 16:59:24 UTC

Stuart,

You are of course free to keep using 3.13.X on your systems. I would not like to encourage its use by our users by keeping it around as it is EOL.

Again, you are free to continuing using it even though it is not in the tree.

If you need to install it on a new server, please refer to: http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/?hideattic=0