On 16. mai 2014, at 22:07, Matt Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> wrote: > > On the other hand, I do like the idea of providing alternate kernels, > although I wonder if the regular backported kernel isn't enough for people? No, they're not, because there isn't security support as we understand it in the stable branch. See for instance the recent kernel vulnerability fix; it's not yet there in backports. -- Jan