On Mi, 27 mar 19, 21:22:18, Andrea Borgia wrote: > Hi. > > In an earlier post[1] I mentioned an ACPI LID issue with my laptop, which > has been fixed in the current 5.x series[2]. > > My questions: > > 1) other than commenting on my own bugreport[3] with this information, > should I do anything else, like closing it or adding some special tags? As > far as current "testing" branch is concerned, this bug is still present, > unless you install a kernel from "experimental"[4] or upstream. If there is a fixed version in Debian you can mark the bug accordingly. > 2) maybe I am not using the proper keywords but I can't seem to find > information on Debian kernel policy, specifically: when does a new kernel > from upstream enter "unstable"? Usually quite soon after the upstream kernel is released as "stable". During the freeze only packages meant for the next stable should be uploaded to unstable (as per Release Team policy), so new versions might go to experimental or not be packaged at all until after the release. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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