Kernel 2.6.16 for Dapper LTS?

[Anders Karlsson]

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 14:25 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 12:37:40PM -0700, Keith Curtis wrote:
> > Linus says in this article that lots of people are using 2.6.16, which he
> > thinks could be a kernel which people 'hunker down' to really stabilize. I
> > wonder whether Ubuntu should move up to that. How many patches have been
> > backported from the 2.6.16. tree?
> > 
> > http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/08/1439236
> 
> That's a bit unfortunate, because 2.6.16 was not ready at the time when we
> needed to make this decision.  We've put a lot of work into stabilizing
> 2.6.15, though (including backporting bugfixes), and it's looking very good.

Question,

If 2.6.16 becomes a better choice for Dapper, maybe in July, November or
early next year, would a proper Ubuntu sanctioned kernel package be made
available in dapper-extras or dapper-backports ?

-- 
Anders Karlsson <trudheim at gmail.com>
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