Package: release.debian.org User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: transition
Hi, This is not a mere transition but our ambition to use kFreeBSD 10.1 as our kernel version for jessie. This is primarily driven by the FreeBSD 10.1 release schedule; they have gone into a 'code slush' which resembles Debian's early freeze, with a final freeze date of 5th September, then they begin beta builds. That applies to their entire distribution, not just their kernel. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.1R/schedule.html A major consequence of their release schedule is that 10.0 security support will have ended by the time Jessie is released. 10.1 should get long-term security support, which means two years from release. http://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#sup Within Debian: * packaging of 10.1 snapshots began some 3 weeks ago, it is in experimental and got through the NEW queue already * Christoph has been running it throughout DebConf * it's working fine with d-i: I've been using 10.1 kernels exclusively while working on the bugs reported in d-i beta 1 (even udebs based on 10.0 or older userland) * the snapshots are based on 10-STABLE, so it is not a development trunk; it is viable to use a snapshot of this for Debian even if the final 10.1 release comes too late to reach sid/jessie * we're already using some features that were new/unimplemented in 10.0, such as newcons that Robert backported an early version of, and KMS which should have matured some more in 10.1 * clang-3.3 is being dropped from jessie/sid in favour of clang-3.4 or 3.5: upstream already builds 10.1 with clang-3.4, whereas 10.0 would need some bits backported by us (not too difficult though) The actual 'transition' part will be kfreebsd-kernel-headers from 10.0 to 10.1 (a snapshot is in experimental; we could update it to a newer snapshot in a few days). It already went through a 9.2->10.0 transition earlier this year. Reverse-Depends are mostly our own freebsd-libs, libc0.1-dev, and from there it could affect many more things. Still it doesn't seem like a regular transition, I don't know if a Ben file could be written to describe it. It should not make anything uninstallable by migrating to jessie. amd64/i386 hardware is easy to get a hold of, so we could do some test rebuilds where it seems like a good idea. Thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: kfreebsd-amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: kFreeBSD 9.0-2-amd64-xenhvm-ipsec Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140831215501.76522.79850.report...@sid.kfreebsd-amd64.pyro.eu.org
