I read this last week just before slipping into a fever in which I had
recurring dreams about the relations of unnameable abstract entities
that seemed later to correspond to software components.
On recovering from the flu, I was pleased to find that I hadn't
imagined that Niels Thykier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On the Release Team's IRC meeting today we concluded the following[1]:
>
> * We expect to release Stretch with the LTS release based on Linux 4.10
> * We intend to delay the freeze (all milestone dates) by 2 months to
> accommodate the above.
> - Note that the expected release date of Linux 4.10 will then fall
> between the "new" freeze and the "deep" freeze.
Thank you very much for accommodating this request!
> * The linux 4.10 release will be entitled to a freeze exception if it
> misses "deep freeze" by 5th of Feb.
> - This exception only applies to linux.
> * We would like to encourage the Linux kernel maintainers to upload
> release candidates of Linux 4.10 in sid.
> - The sooner we can spot regressions/problems in reverse
> dependencies, the better.
Given the recent changes in linux packaging made to support easy
derivation of source packages such as linux-grsec, it should be easy to
upload a temporary linux-4.10 source package in parallel with linux.
This would allow rollback from 4.10 to 4.9 simply by changing which
version the linux-latest package refers to - no fake version or epoch
would be needed to make the 4.9 packages look newer.
> This decision is based on assumptions about the current release schedule
> of the Linux kernel. Should the expected release date for the LTS
> change considerably, we may have to revise the decision.
[...]
And of course I'll let you know if the kernel release cycle deviates
significantly from expected.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest.
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