On 04/22/2018 05:54 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > The backports team decided in 2016 that backports suites will no longer > be updated once the corresponding stable suite enters LTS. This > implies that jessie-backports will be closed at the end of May. > > It is clear that a fair number of wheezy LTS users relied on backported > kernel versions and were caught out when this policy was applied to > wheezy (and not announced as clearly as it could have been). I would > not be surprised if this recurs with jessie. > > Therefore, would it make sense to add a Linux 4.9 backport to the > regular jessie and jessie-security suites? Are there users currently > running jessie with Linux 4.9 and expecting to continue doing so > through the LTS period?
By all means, YES ! Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)