Hi, On Fri, Oct 23, 2026 at 11:52:46AM +0200, Hans wrote: > - is it a general debian policy, that newer kernel versions are not updated > in > debian/stable (except of patched kernel versions) ?
Yes. The kernel team picks a Long Term Stable kernel version and backports security patches into it. In general there are no new features added. That;s how most packages in a Debian stable release work. > - or is kernel 7.2 still buggy, to get into the stable repo ? It's software, it almost certainly has bugs. 😀 The kernel in stable almost certainly has bugs too, that have not been found yet (by anyone who's telling). The reason for the version in stable is for picking an LTS kernel version and sticking with it. > This is just a question, because I wondered, that the kernel in debian/stable > is stil at 6.12.113, which IMO looks rather old. Every Linux distribution that keeps a stable release works this way. If you want a rolling updates distribution, there are lots to choose from, or as you noted you can use packages from backports. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
