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by Kunix 923 days ago
I found a few things surprising about this bug too, but this might be due to my own ignorance about how these processes work:

- I was expecting the package to either be revoked, or to have a new `6.1.64-2` version being published with the previously good known state.

Maybe it wasn't done because it was not possible (mirrors being write-only, and maybe other complications in publishing a 6.1.64-2).

- I was expecting some guidelines to be published for affected machines. I've seen questions being asked [1], but no answers to them yet (so users are not sure if it would be safe to rollback to the previous kernel version (6.1.55-1) or not).

Maybe it's because the problem is not well understood yet, or maybe there are not enough people available to answer such questions on a weekend?

If someone can provide some context about "how these things work", it would be interesting to learn more about this.

[^1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057843#33

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The `6.1.66-1` release with a fix was uploaded to Debian's infrastructure about 2 hours after the bug was filed, but it takes a bit for it to be compiled for all Debian's architectures (the mipsel builder e.g. needed 9 hours) and for it to propgate through the mirror network.