On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 12:45:57PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > On 2022-11-02 03:40, Anssi Saari wrote: > > >> Looks like a linux-5.10 source package was indeed added to Buster in > > >> August and as you noted, it's getting security updates too.
> I'm just curious if this is the first time that a kernel _version_ bump > took place within the trajectory of a single Debian version? Or have kernel > _version_ changes always taken place at debian release boundaries before? It's important to note that this is an optional, newer kernel image. Users who've just been running buster from the beginning may not even know about it, and it will have no effect on them. It's very much UNlike the version bumps on, say, samba that have happened mid-stable-release in the past. I'm fairly certain other releases have had optional kernel packages added to them, but I can't name any other than "etch-and-a-half" off the top of my head. https://wiki.debian.org/EtchAndAHalf
