On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 05:36:40PM +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Hi, > > "Frank Ch. Eigler" <f...@redhat.com> writes: > > Just to clarify, how worried are you about use of recent upstream > > kernels on older debian stable? Is that a typical sort of > > configuration? > > it's not typical for servers but on desktop and laptop systems people > often end up installing kernels from backports. > > > It's hard to predict upstream kernel changes causing systemtap > > breakage. In the past, we have had apprx. 1-2 incidents per major > > kernel release, so it's not too bad. > > Ok, that's what I expected. Now that I think of this more I think a good > long-term strategy for debian would be to provide a systemtap backports > that are in sync with linux-image backports.
That sounds reasonable. I'd be happy to test a new version e.g. uploaded to experimental which could then go into squeeze-backports as soon as automatic testing migration is enabled again. Cheers, -- Guido > > > > -Timo > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
