On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 the mental interface of Colin Watson told: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 04:15:32PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 the mental interface of Colin Watson told: > > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:05:30PM +1000, Evan Read wrote: > > > > I was wondering if, going against the Debian stable grain, kernel > > > > updates (like the seemingly well tested 2.4.19) kernel will ever make > > > > it into stable? > > > > > > It's certainly been known in the past for this to happen, especially in > > > low-numbered point revisions. They frequently fix serious installation > > > bugs on one type of hardware or another, and upgraders don't have to use > > > the new kernel unless they want to do so. > > > > > > However, it's largely up to the kernel maintainer. > > [...] > > > > apt-cache search kernel-image | grep 2.4.19 > > > > kernel-image-2.4.19-386 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.19 on \ > > 386. > > That's testing and unstable, not stable. If you look up you'll see that > Evan was asking about stable. Sorry, I didn't notice that! Ciao Elimar -- Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads ;-) --
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