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Re: [Decision] Kernel version for stretch

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I read this last week just before slipping into a fever in which I had
recurring dreams about the relations of unnameable abstract entities
that seemed later to correspond to software components.

On recovering from the flu, I was pleased to find that I hadn't
imagined that Niels Thykier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On the Release Team's IRC meeting today we concluded the following[1]:
> 
>  * We expect to release Stretch with the LTS release based on Linux 4.10
>  * We intend to delay the freeze (all milestone dates) by 2 months to
>    accommodate the above.
>    - Note that the expected release date of Linux 4.10 will then fall
>      between the "new" freeze and the "deep" freeze.

Thank you very much for accommodating this request!

>  * The linux 4.10 release will be entitled to a freeze exception if it
>    misses "deep freeze" by 5th of Feb.
>    - This exception only applies to linux.
>  * We would like to encourage the Linux kernel maintainers to upload
>    release candidates of Linux 4.10 in sid.
>    - The sooner we can spot regressions/problems in reverse
>      dependencies, the better.

Given the recent changes in linux packaging made to support easy
derivation of source packages such as linux-grsec, it should be easy to
upload a temporary linux-4.10 source package in parallel with linux.

This would allow rollback from 4.10 to 4.9 simply by changing which
version the linux-latest package refers to - no fake version or epoch
would be needed to make the 4.9 packages look newer.

> This decision is based on assumptions about the current release schedule
> of the Linux kernel.  Should the expected release date for the LTS
> change considerably, we may have to revise the decision.
[...]

And of course I'll let you know if the kernel release cycle deviates
significantly from expected.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest.

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Kernel version for stretch Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-01-27 19:30 +0100
  Re: Kernel version for stretch Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2016-01-28 20:10 +0100
    Re: Kernel version for stretch Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-01-28 21:20 +0100
      Re: Kernel version for stretch Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2016-01-30 15:40 +0100
        Re: Kernel version for stretch Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> - 2016-02-07 02:00 +0100
    Re: Kernel version for stretch maximilian attems <maks@stro.at> - 2016-01-29 00:10 +0100
      Re: Kernel version for stretch Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2016-01-30 15:40 +0100
        Re: Kernel version for stretch maximilian attems <maks@stro.at> - 2016-01-30 18:40 +0100
  Re: Kernel version for stretch Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> - 2016-02-02 08:50 +0100
    Re: Kernel version for stretch Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2016-02-02 14:30 +0100
      Re: Kernel version for stretch Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org> - 2016-02-03 08:40 +0100
        Re: Kernel version for stretch Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2016-02-03 19:40 +0100
        Re: Kernel version for stretch Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> - 2016-02-04 04:40 +0100
    Re: Kernel version for stretch Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org> - 2016-02-03 08:30 +0100
    Re: Kernel version for stretch Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-02-05 04:10 +0100
      Re: Kernel version for stretch Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> - 2016-02-05 19:50 +0100
        Re: Kernel version for stretch Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-02-14 17:00 +0100
          Re: Kernel version for stretch Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> - 2016-02-14 21:50 +0100
            Re: Kernel version for stretch Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-02-15 13:20 +0100
    Re: Kernel version for stretch Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@dogguy.org> - 2016-02-15 09:50 +0100
  [Decision] Kernel version for stretch Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> - 2016-02-24 22:50 +0100
    Re: [Decision] Kernel version for stretch Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-03-02 12:30 +0100

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