On Thu, 07 Jul 2016, Riku Voipio wrote: > 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...). In fact the maintainer uploaded a new openssl to backports and I approved it an hour again or so.
Alex
