Hi, as we now all know the last LTS kernel upgrade badly broke systems on VMware. I don't think this is completely avoidable, but maybe there are things that could be improved.
As long as we have Jessie systems (and also for Stretch once it is in LTS) we would be willing to run some staging systems and even parts of the production systems on some sort of -proposed repository. If there are more users doing that we could catch regressions earlier on. I don't exactly know how this could be done technically, as the security repository is the only one open for updates during LTS. In the worst case it could be a seperate host with a seperate signing key, but of course something similar to s-p-u would be preferred. This would probably only be relevant to kernel and possibly things like systemd, I would not want to have all updates sit in proposed for some time. Also at the sole discretion of the maintainer, if a security fix needs to get out it needs to get out. What do you think? Bernhard -- Bernhard Schmidt Netzbetrieb / IPv6 / DNSSEC Leibniz-Rechenzentrum Leibniz Supercomputing Centre Boltzmannstr. 1 D-85748 Garching b. Muenchen Tel: +49 89 35831-7885 E-Mail/Jabber: [email protected]
