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Re: Bumping linux-image and related packages



On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 01:30 +0000, Nick wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Apologies if this isn't the appropriate place to request version 
> bumps, but I couldn't see a better one from browsing 
> http://backports.debian.org
> 
> I'd like a newer version of the kernel than is available with 
> backports. Specifically I want >= 3.11.10-1, as I need bug 731271 
> fixed. At the moment I just compile the kernel myself, but it'd be 
> nice to have a ready built and updated kernel in the backports 
> repository.
> 
> I don't know how automated the kernel backporting is, and whether 
> it's a big job or not, but it would be helpful to me to see it 
> upgraded.
> 
> Apologies again if I'm misunderstanding the protocol for requesting 
> such bumps.

Backporting the linux package is usually quite simple but is not
automated.  I thought I'd actually done 3.11.10-1 but evidently I
haven't.

But you can just as well install linux-image packages from unstable.
The dependencies are exactly the same as in wheezy-backports.  (This is
not true for linux-headers, though.)

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Unix is many things to many people,
but it's never been everything to anybody.

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