On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 07:52:58PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2018-08-17 at 23:48 +0100, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 08:40:06AM -0700, Rodrigo Vivi wrote: > > > Hi Greg, Ben, and all > > > > > > Is https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html updated in terms of EOL? > > > > As of right now, for the kernels I maintain, yes, it is correct. > > > > > Some news out of Linaro conference [2] generated a lot of doubts and questions > > > around. > > > > > > Specially because on the way it was stated by the news 3.16 wouldn't be active > > > anymore. So I'm not sure about the news, but I'd like confirmation from you about > > > expected EOL. > > > > Linaro has nothing to do with the 3.16 kernel, so why are you confusing > > that with what was announced at that conference, which was about the 4.4 > > kernel tree? > > The article says that other longterm branches are only supported for 2 > years - which has been your usual practice, but obviously doesn't > reflect what all stable maintainers have done. > > I try to ensure that every stable branch used in a Debian release is > maintained for the lifetime of that Debian release. That means 5-6 > years after the initial release of the kernel version. So far that has > included 2.6.32 (maintained by Willy Tarreau), 3.2 and 3.16 (maintained > by me). > > In the latest release we used Linux 4.9 which currently has a stated > EOL of 2019. But I'm prepared to take on maintenance from that point > until June 2022. Greg, is that OK with you and should the EOL be > updated on that basis? Thanks a lot for the offer, but I can handle 4.9 until 2023 now, and I've updated kernel.org with the new dates to reflect this. I can always use help though, if you want to make sure I don't miss any patches that Debian specifically needs. thanks, greg k-h
