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Re: question: what will happen to buster when kernel 4.19 goes out of life in Dec2020?

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On Fri, 2019-04-12 at 15:51 +0000, Thierry Vilmart wrote:
> question:
> 
> What will happen to buster when kernel 4.19 goes out of life in
> Dec2020?
> 
> See EOL for 4.19.
> https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html

This is quite likely to be extended to 6 years, as has happened with
4.4 and 4.9.

The Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) is also maintaining a 4.19
branch and aims to do so for 10 years (but covering a limited feature
set).

> If buster debian 10 has to change the kernel to 5 in Dec 2020, it will
> be untested. And it would be preferable to have kernel 5 before buster
> is realeased during the testing phase.
> 
> Or will you do your own patchsets on an out of life 4.19 kernel?

If Greg K-H does not maintain 4.19 for long enough, the Debian kernel
team would probably work with CIP on backporting important fixes.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Hoare's Law of Large Problems:
   Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.

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question: what will happen to buster when kernel 4.19 goes out of  life in Dec2020? Thierry Vilmart <thierry.vilmart@tobii.com> - 2019-04-12 20:50 +0200
  Re: question: what will happen to buster when kernel 4.19 goes out  of life in Dec2020? Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2019-04-12 22:40 +0200
  worry: Debian buster and debian based distributions will miss kernel  5 and AMD Free Sync for 2 years Thierry Vilmart <thierry.vilmart@tobii.com> - 2019-04-17 17:40 +0200
    Re: worry: Debian buster and debian based distributions will miss  kernel 5 and AMD Free Sync for 2 years Eric Degenetais <edegenetais@henix.fr> - 2019-04-17 19:40 +0200
    Re: worry: Debian buster and debian based distributions will miss  kernel 5 and AMD Free Sync for 2 years Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2019-04-17 23:00 +0200

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