Re: LTS kernel in jessie-backports
On 24 May 2016 at 22:23, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> 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.
Am I correct in understanding that it's also impossible to get
src:linux-4.4 and btrfs-progs-4.4 into jessie-updates?
Thanks,
Nicholas
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