Support for Raring 3.8 kernel past 3.9 release

[David Henningsson]

On 04/15/2013 06:16 PM, Brad Figg wrote:
> On 04/14/2013 11:35 PM, David Henningsson wrote:
>> On 04/12/2013 04:22 PM, Brad Figg wrote:
>>>
>>> GregKH has already stated that he will not support 3.8 past
>>> 3.9 being released.
>>>
>>> Should we pick up upstream stable maintenance (in some form)
>>> for the 9 months of support for Raring? We _will_ provide CVE
>>> support for this release.
>>>
>>> I propose that we don't.
>>
>> Sorry if I've missed something, but does this mean that the 12.04.3
>> kernel will only get 6 months of support (from 12.04.3 release
>> to Raring EOL)? Or will 12.04.3 get a different kernel from 13.04?
>>
>>
>>
>
> David,
>
> 13.04 will only be supported for 9 months. 12.04.3 which uses a 13.04 HWE
> kernel will be supported until 14.04.1.
>
> Brad

In other words, if you pick up upstream stable maintenance (I'm not 
saying that you should nor shouldn't), why would the option could be to 
maintain it for 9 months, rather than supporting it until 14.04.1?


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