Re: Kernel version for stretch
On Tue, 02 Feb 2016, Niels Thykier wrote:
> > Greg's new policy is to pick the first Linus release in each year for
> > longterm maintenance. The longterm branch for 2016 is based on Linux
> > 4.4, released at the end of week 1 (10th January). By the time stretch
> > is released, 4.4 will be quite old (the same problem squeeze and wheezy
> > had, requiring many driver backports).
>
> Would you prefer that we moved future freezes (i.e. Buster and later),
> so we could always rely on Greg's branch? Not knowing Linux's LTS planning:
As another data point, I'd like to point out that our freeze/release
schedule also means that we miss most of the benefit from Django's LTS
release. They have an LTS release every two years and they push it out
roughly at the same time than we do with our stable release.
Maybe it would make sense to have a general policy of aiming to accept
LTS releases during the freeze, or even in the first point update.
We could upload pre-release of upcoming LTS versions before the freeze
(or early in the freeze)...
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer
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