The backports team decided in 2016 that backports suites will no longer be updated once the corresponding stable suite enters LTS. This implies that jessie-backports will be closed at the end of May. It is clear that a fair number of wheezy LTS users relied on backported kernel versions and were caught out when this policy was applied to wheezy (and not announced as clearly as it could have been). I would not be surprised if this recurs with jessie. Therefore, would it make sense to add a Linux 4.9 backport to the regular jessie and jessie-security suites? Are there users currently running jessie with Linux 4.9 and expecting to continue doing so through the LTS period? (Maintaining kernel backports is generally quite easy once the suite they are backported from is stable.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is easier to write an incorrect program than to understand a correct one.
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