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Re: LTS kernel in jessie-backports



On Tue, 2016-05-24 at 21:51 -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> Dear Debian Kernel Team,
> 
> My primary area of interest is btrfs on Debian.  The most reliable way
> of limiting one's risk while using this experimental file system is to
> run the most recent LTS kernel, and to minimize the use of exotic
> features, or in some cases not use them at all (eg: RAID56 which
> doesn't yet have proven scrub/self healing support).  In the interest
> of providing the most stable btrfs experience to users of Debian
> stable, would it be possible to fork the jessie-backport of src:linux
> from 4.4.6-1, update it to 4.4.11-1, and then continue to maintain the
> branch?
> 
> I believe I am underqualified to maintain it myself, but if it would
> be sufficient to learn the workflow of patch-level updates to the
> src:linux-derived package, then I might be able to help with the
> effort.

That's not how Debian backports suites work, sorry.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at
once.

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