On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 3:09 PM Fabian Grünbichler <debian@fabian.gruenbichler.email> wrote: > > right now it is updated whenever its rdeps (firefox and chromium in > stable) need newer versions. once e.g. a stable Debian kernel has > similar requirements, I guess the same would apply there. I am not sure > upstream kernel development on Debian stable would be enough of an > argument to update it (or provide similar packages), but I am not a > member of the teams that would make that decision. That is reasonable. > as discussed off-list, -backports might be a better place for providing > more recent toolchain packages on Debian stable, and independent from > this thread, I have pondered providing them there in the past already. > backports would only ship one version as well though, and at most the > one in testing (so it would also be affected by the freeze period, just > like unstable and testing). I imagine that could be useful for some (kernel or not) developers on stable, even with the freeze period. Thanks! Cheers, Miguel
