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  • Bug#1104793: closing 1104793

    From Christopher Huhn@1:229/2 to All on Wed May 7 12:40:01 2025
    XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist
    From: c.huhn@gsi.de

    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].

    Best

    Christopher

    [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2025/05/msg00011.html

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  • From Salvatore Bonaccorso@1:229/2 to Christopher Huhn on Wed May 7 13:10:02 2025
    XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist
    From: carnil@debian.org

    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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