Hi [Cc'ed explicitly Ben and Cyril] With the planned release date for 2023-06-10 and dates around that as announced by the release time it's time to clarify some last work for src:linux to be targeted for bookworm. The base details are in https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/04/msg00007.html The full freeze date will be on 2023-05-24. Additionally we need to take into account the Debian d-i plannings by Cyril and debian-boot. Foremost, Paul Gevers stated in https://bugs.debian.org/1034446#14 what is okay and for how long: > I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this to you before, but to be clear to > everybody I'll state it in public here: we currently trust the kernel > maintainers to make the right decision until (around) the full freeze > under the condition that they consider the following: > > * would you propose the same for a point release? > * if activity in the archive on the d-i front is ongoing or expected > check with d-boot. That means, I still would like to merge the next stable releases. The latest point, depending on d-i planning would probably be sometime in the week of the 15th may for a last upload targetting bookworm. Given the merge window for 6.4, and 6.4-rc1 upcoming, the stable releases following that are quite big, and I fear we should skip those for bookworm initial version, meaning we need to stop before that. Preliminary work on this is at https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/707 (at time of writing updated up to 6.1.27 upstream). Additionally to that there are some requests which are still okay to be included for bookworm: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/710 which Ben already stated to be wanted in bookworm. HW support from Aurelien in https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/711 Open is how we handle #1033058. We added the patch from Cyril, but this got rejected upstream. I think it would be better to not diverge for too long from upstream, but AFAIK there was no progress on "the real fix". Should we revert but then have a regression for the ppc6el installer? Would that be affordable given the non-graphical installer AFAIU still works? Cyril, what is your prefered take on this? One question is how to handle (if some arise) severe security fixes needed for src:linux in the time were we should not upload. I was thinking if necessary to use bookworm-security for this already then and not influencing any d-i work further. Cyril, what do you think? It is really meant just in case we *need* to have an update, my prefered way would be to not have to. What about updates with ABI bumps? So in short: I propose (depending on concrete d-i plannings) to make last possible upload latest in the week of 15th May. Open is what we still would like to include. Are we yet missing anything crucial for the release? Opinion, comments, acks or nacks or specific items? Regards, Salvatore
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