Re: Newer kernel for jessie backports
On Thu, 14 Mar 2019, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 01:57:37PM +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Mar 2019, Arthur de Jong wrote:
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> > > Hi,
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> > > In jessie backports there is currently a 4.9 kernel (4.9.110-3+debu5~deb8u1)
> > > which is based on stretch 4.9.110-3+deb9u2. Since stretch now has
> > > 4.9.144-3.1 are there any plans to make a 4.9.144-3.1~deb8u1 for jessie?
> > >
> > > I have a piece of hardware that requires the newer kernel but will sadly not
> > > be able to upgrade to stretch for a few months.
> > >
> > > Is there something I can do to help this along?
> > jessie-backports is unsupprted for some time now.
>
> The 4.9 kernel in jessie LTS is unrelated to jessie-backports, it's a separate
> source package which continues support for 4.9.x users in jessie-security:
> https://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-4.9.html
Ah you are right, I was fooled by the mentioning of backports. Please ignore
me :).
Alex
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