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Re: Any timeline on Jessie Backports getting kernel 4.10?



Hi Alex,

On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 07:09:34AM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2017, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 07:40:02PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > No, I wouldn't expect that.
> > > LTS Team is not involved in backports. And old-old-stable backports doesn't
> > > exist.
> > 
> > I swear I read a thread about how the expectation is that a backporter
> > is not responsible for continuing to maintain his/her bpos in the part
> > of the LTS lifecycle after +2 is released...but how the LTS team would
> > if they felt the bpo was important.  Maybe I missed the end of that
> > discussion?  Was it resolved that backports become unmaintained when
> > old-stable becomes old-old-stable?
> We had an experiment where backporters were responsible for old-old-stable-backports
> too. It didn't worked well and we decided to stop support for old-old-stable
> backports with the release of stretch [1]. 
> 
> Alex
> 
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2017/06/msg00055.html

Thank you for the link!  "Expect it to get removed from the mirrors
and moved to archive in the near future" clears things up
unambiguously.

Sorry I missed this announcement,
Nicholas

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