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Re: Kernel version for stretch



On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 20:01 +0100, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> > For stretch, I would very much like to choose a kernel version for
> > stretch that gets longterm maintenance by Greg Kroah-Hartman. That
> > lasts 2 years from release, after which someone else (maybe me) can
> > take over.
> 
> Luis Henriques and Kamal Mostafa maintain the ckt stable kernels
> for Ubuntu-non-LTS releases for two years.

Not in general; it can be as little as 12 months (e.g. 3.11-ckt).

> We could base the stretch kernel on the underlying ckt kernel
> series used for Ubuntu 16.04 or 16.10?

Given the politics involved, I would rather not do that twice in a row.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Always try to do things in chronological order;
it's less confusing that way.

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