Re: Meltdown fix for wheezy-backports
On Tue, 23 Jan 2018, Xan Charbonnet wrote:
> I can't seem to find it now, but I believe somewhere official there is (or was
> at one time?) a diagram showing how LTS would allow skipping stable versions:
No, that does not and cannot work.
LTS is “just” the extension of normal stable-security work, for a
subset of architectures and packages.
That being said…
> I still believe it's particularly useful for the kernel: with a backported
> Jessie kernel, new hardware like NVMe drives magically works on Wheezy.
… wheezy-backports{,-sloppy} ought to still be available for uploads
from people who DO care, even if those uploads will need to be
manually ACKed to ensure the rules (must be in jessie/stretch first)
are still followed, and perhaps only for packages already backported,
with few justified exceptions if needed.
On the other hand, it’s often possible to just run the next stable’s
kernel as-is once you’ve had the backported kernel (and the corre‐
sponding supporting packages) installed. It’s nowhere easy to achieve
though, APT pinning is still black magic, especially in versions as
antique as wheezy, so I’d still be in favour of allowing newer jessie
kernels into wheezy-backports right now IF someone’s willing to do
the work.
Given that wheezy currently gets the most amount of security fixes,
most quickly too, for several noticeable packages, it’s not unjusti‐
fied to want to continue running it, and quite a boon for LTS.
bye,
//mirabilos
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