On 07/02/2013 01:34 PM, Istimsak Abdulbasir wrote: > Hi Joe, > > When you say "new mainline kernel", are you referring to new kernels > in the upstream ubuntu branch or kernels released on www.kernel.org > <http://www.kernel.org>? > > If the bug has been fixed, the fixed package will be available in the > stable release repos, or, if not, you check how the bug was fixed then > slowly add it to the stable release trees? So I am clear on this. > Thanks for responding. > > Istimsak Abdulbasir > > > On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Joseph Salisbury > <joseph.salisb...@canonical.com > <mailto:joseph.salisb...@canonical.com>> wrote: > > Can someone further analyze this paragraph. > > "For bugs in the Linux (Ubuntu) > <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux> package, > unless the upstream maintainer or kernel developer notes > otherwise, if a > new mainline kernel comes out, and you haven't tested with it, > your report > is considered Status Incomplete <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status> > whether > or not someone toggled the Status of your report. " > > Source: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs > > > Hi Istimsak, > > When a new mainline kernel comes out, we usually ask to have it > tested. > The primary purpose of this is to see if the bug has already been > fixed > upstream. If it has been fixed upstream, we check to see if it > was also > sent for inclusion in the upstream stable trees. If it wasn't sent to > upstream stable, we then figure what exact commit fixed the bug, then > cherry pick it into the Ubuntu stable kernels. > > A bug is also set to Incomplete when the apport logs are not > included in > the report. > > I'm not sure if this is the information you were looking for. If not, > just let me know and I can provide some additional details. > > Thanks, > > Joe > > When we refer to "new mainline kernel", it is the current upstream development kernel, which is Linus' tree. The kernel is compiled and put into a .deb package whenever a new version comes out. These kernel are available for download from: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ <http://kernel.ubuntu.com/%7Ekernel-ppa/mainline/>
For example, v3.10 is the current mainline kernel, which can be downloaded from: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.10-saucy/ -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality
