On Mon, 2019-04-01 at 21:30 +0200, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as we now all know the last LTS kernel upgrade badly broke systems on
> VMware. I don't think this is completely avoidable, but maybe there are
> things that could be improved.
>
> As long as we have Jessie systems (and also for Stretch once it is in
> LTS) we would be willing to run some staging systems and even parts of
> the production systems on some sort of -proposed repository. If there
> are more users doing that we could catch regressions earlier on.
>
> I don't exactly know how this could be done technically, as the security
> repository is the only one open for updates during LTS. In the worst
> case it could be a seperate host with a seperate signing key, but of
> course something similar to s-p-u would be preferred.
>
> This would probably only be relevant to kernel and possibly things like
> systemd, I would not want to have all updates sit in proposed for some
> time. Also at the sole discretion of the maintainer, if a security fix
> needs to get out it needs to get out.
>
> What do you think?
I'm happy to upload packages for testing to people.debian.org, in the
absence of something more official.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
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