On Sun, 2017-09-03 at 18:51 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 01:45:48 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > There are several changes in the 4.9-stable branch which I don't think > > we can take without changes to the kernel module ABI that will affect > > out-of-tree modules. This would mean an ABI bump, changing the names > > of all linux-image and linux-headers packages. > > > > Since we install meta-packages (such as linux-image-amd64) by default, > > an 'apt full-upgrade' should result in installing the appropriate new > > packages. However, we have been able to avoid such an ABI bump in the > > past 3 releases (so far) and this might come as a surprise to users. I > > think the point release announcement would need to draw attention to > > this. > > > > If this is totally unacceptable, I can revert the breaking changes, but > > some of them fix use-after-free bugs that probably have security > > impact. > > > > Please let us know as soon as possible whether an ABI bump is OK, so > > that we can prepare the update in time for the next point release. > > > > This should be fine. We don't ship any pre-built modules in stretch > outside the linux source package, so the only other thing we need to do > is update d-i at that point release. Thanks. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.
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