Re: lenny-and-a-half?
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 04:45:16PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote:
> Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > * Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> [2009-11-20 16:58]:
> >> Hi all. Is there work under way for a lenny-and-a-half release? Is
> >> there a wiki page or other resource listing ongoing tasks, progress,
> >> calls for help, etc? I know about http://wiki.debian.org/LennyAndAHalf,
> >> but thus far it doesn't have much content.
> >
> > Since nobody else has responded and I have an interest in
> > lenny-and-a-half, let me share my impression of the current status:
> > when the December freeze was announced, some members of the kernel
> > team said that lenny-and-a-half doesn't make sense. This position has
> > apparently not changed even after the freeze has been moved to March.
> > So afaik nobody is working on lenny-and-a-half at the moment.
> >
> > If you're willing to put in some effort I guess the next step would be
> > ask the security and release team whether they'd support it.
> >
> > I'm personally interested in lenny-and-a-half and would be happy to
> > ensure that it works well on ARM.
>
> The Release Team currently has its hands full so will probably not be
> the one to push for a lenny-and-a-half. As long as new hardware support
> is possible through the general point releases, that is also the
> preferred way. Though if there is a more general interest in a
> lenny-and-a-half the Release Team will happily try to help make it
> happen. A first step is investigating what hardware support is wanted
> that is not possible via general point releases though.
>
> So any input on what new hardware support is missing is appreciated and
> even more if it's not possible to have that in a general point release
> (too much changes or too much risk of breakage without going to a newer
> kernel for instance).
+1 - and in the form of a bug report, please.
Note that we don't currently have the resources to manage kernel
security updates for etch, etch+half, lenny and lenny+half
simultaneously. Unless that changes, we can't consider a lenny+half
until after February 2010 - which is just before the squFReeze.
Also note that the current plan is to try and release 2.6.32 for
squeeze, and those packages should install fine in a lenny
environment. We might be able to achieve a poor-man's lenny+half by
asking users to use the squeeze installer to install lenny, and pull
kernel updates from squeeze/squeeze-security?
--
dann frazier
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