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Re: Linux kernel version for wheezy



On Sun, 2012-01-22 at 14:30 +0100, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> schrieb:
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> > If I don't hear any objections from the kernel team in the next week,
> > I'm going to assume that everyone is happy to go with Linux 3.2.
> >
> > The decision needs to be communicated to Debian developers in general
> > (d-d-a) and to Greg Kroah-Hartman in his capacity as organiser of
> > stable/longterm series.  If we go with 3.2 then we will also want to
> > work closely with the Ubuntu kernel maintainers.
> 
> Despite my initial preference to go with 3.3/3.4 I think that's
> the best option. There's nothing mouth-watering in 3.3 and the
> time frame between the release of 3.2 and the Wheezy release will
> be similar to the interval between 2.6.32 and Squeeze.

Probably a little shorter, in fact:

Linux 2.6.32 release: 2009-12-03
Debian 6.0 release:   2011-02-06 (14 months)

Linux 3.2 release:    2012-01-05
Debian 7.0 release:   est. 2012-12 or 2013-01 (~12 months)

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Knowledge is power.  France is bacon.

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