unsubscribe On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> Debian 7.0 'wheezy' will include Linux 3.2. This is currently in > unstable and will soon enter testing. > > The kernel team is open to backporting some features from later kernel > versions, particularly to support newer hardware. > > Featuresets > ----------- > > The only featureset provided will be 'rt' (realtime), currently built > for amd64 only. If there is interest in realtime support for other > architectures, we may be able to add that. However, we do need to > consider the total time taken to build binary packages for each > architecture. > > If there are particular container features that should be enabled or > backported to provide a useful replacement for OpenVZ or VServer, > please let us know. We cannot promise that these will all be enabled > but we need to know what is missing. > > Compatibility > ------------- > > If you maintain a package for which the current stable version is not > compatible with Linux 3.2, excluding kernel module packages, please > consider making a stable update that fixes this. > > If you maintain a kernel module package, please ensure that this is > compatible with Linux 3.2 in time for the freeze. Any modules that > are not compatible will not be included in the release. I recently > tested building all the module packages I could find against Linux 3.1 > and have filed bugs against those that failed to build; however I have > not tested against Linux 3.2 and would prefer that the respective > maintainers did so. > > We intend to switch to 2-component upstream version numbers in the > kernel version string, e.g. 3.3-1-amd64. This change has been > deferred until after wheezy to avoid incompatibility with packages in > squeeze that assume 3-component version numbers. If your package uses > uname(1) or uname(2) please ensure that it is prepared for this *in > wheezy* so that we can make the change immediately after. > > Upstream support > ---------------- > > Debian, Ubuntu and others will work upstream on a 3.2.y longterm > series of bug fixes. > > Ben. > > -- > Ben Hutchings > We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. > - Albert Camus > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iQIVAwUBTyWOS+e/yOyVhhEJAQqAvA/+LomQCJ5JWEDQ1x2I6TtdZul2kKqruA9h > oSKj6zlVWWOqocaSKX6VnCtbhm6mSPMGl+/pF5OegbGEiluyY4QyUyOHap5aR6ID > S7KwQ516NmgBQ+rjQuG+3MHAE8afCdhH2yA/uDub7rya+gfp9MaWbDFS2wSdMyXb > u37JJAJiSbWVnI/bRYVZFMSffZ4NCYhjyNJLE1ljlHj+UVurtR/zLm5t0lg4nrGq > IWNmef867qy6DG6G+EYMndswxDw2OJvJn0bsYVpyXXj3Eh1Vl2+PsyaVEyoTH8a6 > 1z4PhSlLDliqug4Mt5/h7Q4+HcJyipl0pSzleVuNb31nmQ9xptFddKkJibq4mz61 > 5uyGVQG7AVn2T7riXMiQux2jiw+u5yLxULSZJoqbOHwXqeHTU9VMYpsRpr0H8voT > 35f+2ucyTGZmLWAS1WhmigYxEqcAvLuPdHX7adRne82VNlPttLXbCAKDCzJPwWdt > uWfTh+NrhdiVzXZlcbUhIbk3G7c9MhaANl0J3QKQtb0i3hwEp59z1ufZGFBsrtpU > As5YZpCgnJt+NRSDh9J7p5DVAfiO50MS5s3OUyKzL25O0Zon4djns6X2fNbd9UDU > S61EjW+pzyYObyZFGrMFttzXLl6cvWU0jbM5U5pnFnrEmTJNlpAxnv3i/gfcOKab > Ke7aiKb8hvw= > =LAU4 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
