On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 04:45:16PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Noah Meyerhans <[email protected]> [2009-11-20 16:58]: > >> Hi all. Is there work under way for a lenny-and-a-half release? Is > >> there a wiki page or other resource listing ongoing tasks, progress, > >> calls for help, etc? I know about http://wiki.debian.org/LennyAndAHalf, > >> but thus far it doesn't have much content. > > > > Since nobody else has responded and I have an interest in > > lenny-and-a-half, let me share my impression of the current status: > > when the December freeze was announced, some members of the kernel > > team said that lenny-and-a-half doesn't make sense. This position has > > apparently not changed even after the freeze has been moved to March. > > So afaik nobody is working on lenny-and-a-half at the moment. > > > > If you're willing to put in some effort I guess the next step would be > > ask the security and release team whether they'd support it. > > > > I'm personally interested in lenny-and-a-half and would be happy to > > ensure that it works well on ARM. > > The Release Team currently has its hands full so will probably not be > the one to push for a lenny-and-a-half. As long as new hardware support > is possible through the general point releases, that is also the > preferred way. Though if there is a more general interest in a > lenny-and-a-half the Release Team will happily try to help make it > happen. A first step is investigating what hardware support is wanted > that is not possible via general point releases though. > > So any input on what new hardware support is missing is appreciated and > even more if it's not possible to have that in a general point release > (too much changes or too much risk of breakage without going to a newer > kernel for instance).
+1 - and in the form of a bug report, please. Note that we don't currently have the resources to manage kernel security updates for etch, etch+half, lenny and lenny+half simultaneously. Unless that changes, we can't consider a lenny+half until after February 2010 - which is just before the squFReeze. Also note that the current plan is to try and release 2.6.32 for squeeze, and those packages should install fine in a lenny environment. We might be able to achieve a poor-man's lenny+half by asking users to use the squeeze installer to install lenny, and pull kernel updates from squeeze/squeeze-security? -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
