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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