Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

[Alexander Wirt <formorer@formorer.de>]

On Thu, 07 Jul 2016, Riku Voipio wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 02:01:03PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > There's something I've been pondering for a while, along with some
> > other folks - it might be useful to do a "jessie and a half" release,
> > similarly to what we did in the etch days. That's *basically* just
> > like a normal jessie release, but with a few key updates:
> > 
> >  * backports kernel
> >  * rebuilt d-i to match that kernel
> >  * X drivers
> >  * ... (other things that might be needed for consistency)
> > 
> > all rolled up with a small installer image build (netinst, maybe DVD#1).
> > 
> > A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this
> 
> One particular pain point is libssl. The version in jessie:
> 
> - Is too old for providing HTTP/2 servers for chrome [1]
> - Lacks API features already used by apps like nodejs, #815272
> - Has no arm64 optimizations 
> 
> The problem is that uploading latest openssl from unstable to
> jessie-backports is not really feasible (ABI break and security
> maintainance needed...). 
In fact the maintainer uploaded a new openssl to backports and I approved it
an hour again or so.

Alex