Reasons Why Jaunty Will Not Ship With 2.6.29

Martin Pitt martin.pitt at ubuntu.com
Thu Feb 12 08:06:27 UTC 2009


Null Ack [2009-02-12  4:06 +1100]:
> As do I Scott, but I am careful to distinguish between features and
> fixes. I'd like to know if .29 fixes will be backported into Ubuntu's
> .28 and how the thing will be managed.

They are, and there will be more. E. g. look at 2.6.28-7.18 at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux

We are a couple of days before feature freeze, switching to a kernel
which hasn't even been released yet would be very risky in terms of
stabilization. Thus we won't do it.

Martin
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