Re: Kernel version for stretch
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 08:15:30PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 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).
I would need to confirm that, but AFAICS the non-LTS kernels after 3.11 are
all maintained for two years (since they are now made available at "hardware
enablement kernels" for the Ubuntu LTS releases.
> > 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.
Ok.
Cheers,
Moritz
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