On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 01:57:37PM +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote: > On Thu, 14 Mar 2019, Arthur de Jong wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > > > Hi, > > > > In jessie backports there is currently a 4.9 kernel (4.9.110-3+debu5~deb8u1) > > which is based on stretch 4.9.110-3+deb9u2. Since stretch now has > > 4.9.144-3.1 are there any plans to make a 4.9.144-3.1~deb8u1 for jessie? > > > > I have a piece of hardware that requires the newer kernel but will sadly not > > be able to upgrade to stretch for a few months. > > > > Is there something I can do to help this along? > jessie-backports is unsupprted for some time now.
The 4.9 kernel in jessie LTS is unrelated to jessie-backports, it's a separate source package which continues support for 4.9.x users in jessie-security: https://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-4.9.html Cheers, Moritz
