-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 05/29/2014 10:17 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote:
[that on 2014-05-29 at 20:51, The Wanderer wrote:] >> linux-image-amd64 depends on whatever the latest-in-Debian AMD64 >> version of the Linux kernel is. If you install this package from >> Debian stable, you will currently get kernel 3.2.0.4, but when >> version 3.3 or newer becomes available from the repositories your >> package manager will automatically pull in that version instead. > > Thanks for taking the time to answer my question at length. > > How likely, do you think, is Debian to release version 3.3? Debian 7 > has linux-image-3.2 since its official release. The next stable > release, Debian 8, may happen in May 2015. Debian 7 is the current stable release, codenamed 'wheezy'. I don't think it's very likely that wheezy will ever have a kernel more recent than 3.2.x, except possibly through the separate and optional wheezy-backports repository. Debian 8 is the current testing "release", codenamed 'jessie'. Kernel 3.14.1 is already available in jessie, and newer kernels may very well show up in testing before jessie enters a "freeze" state to prepare for final release as the new stable. (The "freeze" is scheduled to happen later this year; I think the last announcement I saw which mentioned a date said it would be on November 5th.) If your configuration is set up to receive packages from 'stable' rather than specifically from 'wheezy', then when jessie is released as stable, if you have linux-image-amd64 you will get the newer kernel from jessie. If you have an explicit kernel-version package instead, you will stay with that kernel version indefinitely. There will probably be more options, involving 'oldstable' and LTS release support and other repository fiddling, but that starts to get more complicated to assess than I can easily cover in a brief summary. - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTh0SEAAoJEASpNY00KDJrYVoP/3+bOcCc7+2phqyIHx840Dfp Yc4wAJPT5/C6mGkn5shifYl0Voy6usKjJuNd0S/P+puUAIVDsVskUIP4cSsRh7CM kPdY7PFUhwuSNitaaxsZIwLGR6FcYbFH/TWFbgzg8eBgK//raM1SoA8p7HxevoCu ilup7zEZjw2DbtwUkxTBYYctoRwybyp/0dlTLnHMG7OmLlaBw7nWz/oZ3m3FlH8s uY2P41cXdRa72boIVMu5ktJLmqhZK72zcrxsHckOe2Ce+ohqeUF84tuG8YmiviB2 +eiMyQyHoC8R2bozLKXy6S+ZVXUUYcS2XCyefJIl86pDaUlfoklgKj6Jhf+p8sL5 KThki6QIbAXmme8A2D1d3C2l0tfQOMXNTXZuTTbMpsZ5LBTSbW4O6/5yOyLo4/Da nXnRwAYeJU5vvqoVxnyEUnghyohHdBHgVya2YBYZIcPXzKzkv+r5TUTf0UsHr76N SPsr8tEGuXA3YDCTBTyZbmiNnJEsCz3bLFRU/qafzqtxN8PPnd3/i777cO8d0DEc SRHROxgoG+T9rwPIYWFflPPfprG5ZSr5eC4Fb8n9b4cbboe5wPu6cTtFbPsXuuqa Koo1W/e/OpZpzH1pJgB3N+enq6d2pvWOn+FyHGvKFuS0VMyHqBxM62s4kKm7ciU7 himS9ID2+BVinGpPIDTa =4Cai -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53874485.4080...@fastmail.fm
