On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 02:01:03PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > There's something I've been pondering for a while, along with some > other folks - it might be useful to do a "jessie and a half" release, > similarly to what we did in the etch days. That's *basically* just > like a normal jessie release, but with a few key updates: > > * backports kernel > * rebuilt d-i to match that kernel > * X drivers > * ... (other things that might be needed for consistency) > > all rolled up with a small installer image build (netinst, maybe DVD#1). > > A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this
One particular pain point is libssl. The version in jessie: - Is too old for providing HTTP/2 servers for chrome [1] - Lacks API features already used by apps like nodejs, #815272 - Has no arm64 optimizations The problem is that uploading latest openssl from unstable to jessie-backports is not really feasible (ABI break and security maintainance needed...). Riku [1] https://ma.ttias.be/day-google-chrome-disables-http2-nearly-everyone-may-31st-2016/ #815272 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815272
