On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 07:05:42PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: >On Mon, 2016-07-04 at 14:01 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Hey folks, >> >> 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. > >As I recall, that added extra packages to the etch suite, whereas it >seems like this would take updated packages the jessie-backports suite.
Yup, that's what I'm thinking. >> 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) > >For the kernel: firmware-nonfree, kernel-wedge, linux-base, linux- >latest, linux-signed, sbsigntool. All of those are already in jessie- >backports, except the last two which will be needed starting with 4.7. Right. >For user-space graphics: libdrm and mesa, presumably. > >> all rolled up with a small installer image build (netinst, maybe DVD#1). >> >> A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this, and maybe owners >> of very recent amd64 machines too, with better support for things on >> the Skylake platform. Those are the only two architectures I'm >> thinking of supporting at this point. >> >> Is anybody else interested in helping? Thoughts/comments? > >When do you anticipate this would be releasable? Would it really be >long enough before stretch, to be worthwhile? I'm thinking late July / early August, which would still give us a number of months lead on Stretch. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now you don't have to be a Caesar to concord the digital world while feeling safe and proud.
