Re: Kernel version for stretch
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:18:44 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> 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.
>
Can people please avoid hijacking this thread with unrelated and
irrelevant discussion?
Thanks,
Julien
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