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Re: Meltdown fix for wheezy-backports



On Fri, 12 Jan 2018, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> On Wed, 2018-01-10 at 11:13 -0600, Xan Charbonnet wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Is a Meltdown fix for the wheezy-backports kernel (3.16) on the way? 
> > Thanks very much!
> 
> I'm sorry to tell you that wheezy-backports has not been supported for
> nearly a year now.  This was never widely announced (I can no longer
> find the announcement) and I think this end-of-life was handled
> extremely badly by the backports administrators.
It was handled badly by the backporters. I really hope you don't expect 
the administrators to do the backports. There was a discussion and nearly
noone was in favour of doing those backports. 

And of course we announced it - as we always do announce changes: 

https://backports.debian.org/news/stretch-backports/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2017/06/msg00055.html

Alex

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