On Thu, 2016-12-22 at 14:37 -0800, Rumen Telbizov wrote: > Thank you for your answer Ben. > > I might have to consider switching over to 4.7/4.8 then. > In that regard I was wondering what the support level for those newer > kernels from jessie-backports is? Can I count on the same level of > maintenance from Debian as 3.16 has? That is - security fixes will be > backported just like for 3.16 for the lifetime of jessie, or 4.8 will be > replaced by 4.9 and so on, thus sticking with the next upstream kernel. jessie-backports follows what goes into stretch. Since we expect to release stretch with Linux 4.9, both stretch and jessie-backports should settle down soon. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin
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