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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