Hi Salvatore, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> (2018-06-05): > On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 10:49:46PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > I don't think we have any pending ABI bump for linux (this time), and > > the stretch branch in debian-installer.git seems quiet, so binNMUing d-i > > might be sufficient. I might have missed pu requests for d-i components > > though, but hopefully debian-boot@ will correct me if I'm wrong on this. > > Adding Kernel team list explicitly to the loop only for this later > part, dropping other recipients which might not be interested for this > reply specifically. > > Currently we are cherry-picking secrutiy fixes in our > stretch-security branch. In parallel there is work on the stretch > branch to update to a newer 4.9.x stable release and to have it > included in the next point release. Now if the later turns out to be > the case earlier than any DSA, then there will actually likely be a > ABI bump for the kernel (the update will be at least up to 4.9.102 and > there are too many ABI changes as they would be possible to avoid). > > Context: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/merge_requests/30 Many thanks for the heads-up. I'll be on the lookout for a possible late ABI bump then. Feel free to poke me when that gets accepted into p-u so that I can adjust our git branch and perform a few build and runtime tests. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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