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Re: [Question] Backporting ACPI fix to Buster kernel?

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Hi Georgi,

On 5/30/21 9:44 AM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
> Debian unstable and testing have no security support. As Linus Torvalds
> has said, security issues are bugs so the bugs will be fixed but
> unstable and testing have no official security support in Debian.

I know, I remembered security support for testing was planned or at 
least discussed several years ago. I first started to run Debian in 2001 
(2.2r3), but ran mostly stable over the years. The packages are old, but 
not as old as on RHEL, and I like not having surprises and not getting 
delays and bugs I wouldn't have hit on stable. Stable is very well 
tested and generally works pretty well, except for minor annoyances. I 
ran testing for a few months, many years ago, and returned to stable.

> On the other hand Debian 11 (testing) (AMD64) is quite stable and
> current stable (Debian 10) has more bugs than testing (Debian 11) so you
> can check existing bugs for Debian 11 and if you decide then you can
> install and use Debian testing (Debian 11).

I think running testing now would be ok due to the freeze before the 
release. For future reference, I was told today in #debian-kernel on 
OFTC that "kernels with important security fixes usually go into testing 
within a week during the freeze", and I was also pointed to #988422 - 
kernel 5.10.40 will probably get pushed to testing soon (hopefully also 
on bpo), so running a backported kernel would probably be ok if the fix 
doesn't get backported to 4.19 for the next point release.

Thanks,
Laurențiu

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[Question] Backporting ACPI fix to Buster kernel? Laurențiu Păncescu <lpancescu@gmail.com> - 2021-05-30 08:30 +0200
  Re: [Question] Backporting ACPI fix to Buster kernel? Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2021-05-30 09:50 +0200
    Re: [Question] Backporting ACPI fix to Buster kernel? Laurențiu Păncescu <lpancescu@gmail.com> - 2021-05-30 20:40 +0200
  Re: [Question] Backporting ACPI fix to Buster kernel? Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2021-06-02 17:50 +0200
    Re: [Question] Backporting ACPI fix to Buster kernel? Laurențiu Păncescu <lpancescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-03 20:10 +0200

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