Re: Any timeline on Jessie Backports getting kernel 4.10?
On Tue, 2017-07-11 at 10:07 +0200, Gunter Königsmann wrote:
>
> On 11.07.2017 09:36, Rhonda D'Vine wrote:
> > Dear Karen,
> >
> > * Karen Gabrielyan <karen.gabrielyan@gmail.com> [2017-07-11
> > 05:22:43 CEST]:
> > > Just curious, is there any tentative timeline for Jessie
> > > Backports getting
> > > kernel 4.10?
> >
> > Given that packages for jessie-backports get pulled from stretch,
> > and
> > stretch has 4.9.30, I highly doubt that this will/can
> > happen. Besides,
> > testing has 4.11.6, there is no 4.10 anywhere in the archive, even
> > if
> > jessie-backports-sloppy would get used (and I doubt that the kernel
> > team
> > wants to have even more work on their shoulders for that too - but
> > ultimately it's their call).
> >
>
> If the original intention of the question was if a kernel >=4.10 would
> appear at one point in time the answer would be: "In Backports.".
More specifically "In the buster kernel version will be stretch-
backports". As Rhonda said jessie-backports (the question here) is only
eligible to receive versions from stretch which is now stable and
tracking the 4.9.x series and won't be picking up a 4.10+ kernel.
Ian.
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