Re: Bug#888263: Spectre : release kernel 4.9.77 to stretch before p-u

From	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Re: Bug#888263: Spectre : release kernel 4.9.77 to stretch before p-u
Date	2018-01-28 19:30 +0100
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On Sun, 2018-01-28 at 18:42 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-01-24 at 13:52 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > 
> > work on 4.9.77 is mostly done, so yes I'd like to push it to stretch before
> > next point relase. 4.9.78 is just out but I'm unsure if we want to hold it or
> > not.
> 
> Hi Ben,
> 
> So I went ahead an updated to 4.9.78 and added the revert for the VERMAGIC
> stuff (which is queued for 4.9.79).

This makes sense.  I think once an updated gcc is available in stretch
we should bump the ABI number and Build-Depends at the same time as un-
reverting that.

> I'm currently running a full build in pbuilder in a stretch chroot, so it
> should be ready for upload if it's ok for you.
> 
> I'm unsure about stable-uploads procedure for the kernel (SRM and debian-boot
> notifications for example) so pointer to any specific stuff would be welcome.

I've tended to upload shortly before point releases, but I think we
should really be uploading earlier and more often so regressions are
more lilely to be caught before a point release.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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Bug#888263: Spectre : release kernel 4.9.77 to stretch before p-u Julien Aubin <julien.aubin@gmail.com> - 2018-01-24 13:50 +0100
  Bug#888263: Spectre : release kernel 4.9.77 to stretch before p-u Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> - 2018-01-24 14:10 +0100
  Re: Bug#888263: Spectre : release kernel 4.9.77 to stretch before  p-u Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> - 2018-01-28 18:50 +0100
    Re: Bug#888263: Spectre : release kernel 4.9.77 to stretch before  p-u Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> - 2018-01-28 19:30 +0100
      Re: Bug#888263: Spectre : release kernel 4.9.77 to stretch before  p-u Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-01-28 19:50 +0100
        Re: Bug#888263: Spectre : release kernel 4.9.77 to stretch before  p-u Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> - 2018-01-28 20:40 +0100
          Re: Bug#888263: Spectre : release kernel 4.9.77 to stretch before  p-u Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> - 2018-02-05 20:40 +0100
    Re: Bug#888263: Spectre : release kernel 4.9.77 to stretch before  p-u Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-01-28 19:30 +0100

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