Re: Debian installer with a newer kernel
Tixy [2022-04-14 19:19:25] wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-04-14 at 11:18 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> > I think it would be great to provide such a (semi-)official support
>> > for
>> > backported kernels in the installer again. There is probably a
>> > significant number of users which use testing, just because they
>> > can't
>> > install stable on their systems.
>> Another approach is to use the "Debian testing" installer and later
>> adjust the system to "Debian stable".
> Package downgrades aren't supported, and I don't expect what you
> suggest would go well.
Indeed with the current system you'd have to perform a downgrade, but if
this was taken seriously it would just mean that the Debian installer
would become somewhat independent from the release it installs which
should not be too hard to do technically.
Stefan
Reply to: