On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 11:43:14PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >I assume "forking" the kernel for jessie+½ as done for etch-and-half is > >the plan already? (forking as in using a new source package…) > God, no - really *not* that way at all. I'm thinking of using the > kernel in backports at the time we do a build/test/release > cycle. People using this and updating will end up following bpo for a > while until the Stretch release. ah, ok. then I'd like to suggest *not* to call it jessie+half, as we have used that term already (for etch+half) and there we had a frozen/stable kernel, not a moving target like bpo. maybe "jessie+bpo-installer" would be a better fit? and maybe, we could also do such releases more regularily (if this works out and turns out not to be that much extra work…) -- cheers, Holger
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