On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 01:45:48 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > There are several changes in the 4.9-stable branch which I don't think > we can take without changes to the kernel module ABI that will affect > out-of-tree modules. This would mean an ABI bump, changing the names > of all linux-image and linux-headers packages. > > Since we install meta-packages (such as linux-image-amd64) by default, > an 'apt full-upgrade' should result in installing the appropriate new > packages. However, we have been able to avoid such an ABI bump in the > past 3 releases (so far) and this might come as a surprise to users. I > think the point release announcement would need to draw attention to > this. > > If this is totally unacceptable, I can revert the breaking changes, but > some of them fix use-after-free bugs that probably have security > impact. > > Please let us know as soon as possible whether an ABI bump is OK, so > that we can prepare the update in time for the next point release. > This should be fine. We don't ship any pre-built modules in stretch outside the linux source package, so the only other thing we need to do is update d-i at that point release. Cheers, Julien
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