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Control: reopen -1
Hi Christoph,
Thanks for your time in coming back to the bug and explaining your
viewpoint.
On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 12:18:24PM +0200, Christopher Huhn wrote:
Hello Salvatore,
This is out of scope for a stable release where we do support only one >
upstream stable series via security updates as well.
I don't quite understand your explanation.
Providing additional meta-packages for Trixie like linux-image-6.12-amd64 in addition to linux-image-amd64 aso. has neither to do with supporting
multiple kernel versions in Debian stable nor backports of any sort – or has
it?
The story is different for LTS (and ELTS).
This is exactly my point because I'd like it to be consistent and have linux-image-6.12-amd64 etc. on Bookworm, Bullseye, Buster *and* Trixie.
I asked about this on debian-lts first and was asked to open a bug report against src:linux[1].
Right, since it was Ben himself replying on the debian-lts thread (who
is maintaining the kernel for LTS and ELTS) I will reopen the bug and
see with him if we want to do that.
In LTS and ELTS they provide multiple source packages and support
them, and that was my point that we won't do that for stable.
But maybe he has a concrete idea on providing additional metapackages
only to be used in the bookworm-backports provided versions so once
you have backports enabled you could install those via these package
names as well.
Regards,
Salvatore
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