Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release
- To: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>
- Cc: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-release@lists.debian.org, debian-boot@lists.debian.org, debian-arm@lists.debian.org, broonie@sirena.org.uk, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
- Subject: Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release
- From: Alexander Wirt <formorer@formorer.de>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 12:24:03 +0200
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On Thu, 07 Jul 2016, Riku Voipio wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 02:01:03PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > There's something I've been pondering for a while, along with some
> > other folks - it might be useful to do a "jessie and a half" release,
> > similarly to what we did in the etch days. That's *basically* just
> > like a normal jessie release, but with a few key updates:
> >
> > * backports kernel
> > * rebuilt d-i to match that kernel
> > * X drivers
> > * ... (other things that might be needed for consistency)
> >
> > all rolled up with a small installer image build (netinst, maybe DVD#1).
> >
> > A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this
>
> One particular pain point is libssl. The version in jessie:
>
> - Is too old for providing HTTP/2 servers for chrome [1]
> - Lacks API features already used by apps like nodejs, #815272
> - Has no arm64 optimizations
>
> The problem is that uploading latest openssl from unstable to
> jessie-backports is not really feasible (ABI break and security
> maintainance needed...).
In fact the maintainer uploaded a new openssl to backports and I approved it
an hour again or so.
Alex
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