On Fri, 2018-07-20 at 01:09 +0200, Baptiste Jonglez wrote: > On 19-07-18, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Thu, 2018-07-19 at 17:26 +0200, Baptiste Jonglez wrote: > > > I saw the recent announcement about linux-4.9 [1,2] in jessie. > > > > > > However, these new packages are not installable without jessie-backports, > > > because they depend on linux-base >= 4.3~, while only linux-base 3.5 is > > > available on plain jessie: > > > > > > # apt install linux-image-4.9.0-0.bpo.7-amd64 > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > > linux-image-4.9.0-0.bpo.7-amd64 : Depends: linux-base (>= 4.3~) but 3.5 is to be installed > > > > > > Aren't these linux-image-4.9* packages supposed to be used without > > > jessie-backports? I may have misunderstood the intent. > > > > No-one should install these unless they are already using jessie- > > backports. The intent is primarily that they can be updated even > > though jessie-backports will not be updated. > > Ok, but that is only for updating from the kernel version in jessie-backports. > > To use linux 4.9 on a fresh jessie, it looks like jessie-backports is no > longer needed? (notwithstanding the bug below) Yes, that's the intent. However some systems will need firmware that is not included in the non-free section for jessie. I will probably update firmware-nonfree as well. Ben. > > However, this dependency on a version not in jessie is a real bug. It > > is probably safe to update linux-base in jessie, but I'll have to take > > some time to verify that. > > Ok, thanks! > > Baptiste -- Ben Hutchings No political challenge can be met by shopping. - George Monbiot
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