Kernel 2.6.16 for Dapper LTS?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 05:25:36AM +0100, Anders Karlsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 14:25 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > 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 ?

Whether it could go into dapper-backports would depend heavily on how
exactly the package was derived.  The usual approach for -backports is to
build the package from the development release, which in the case of Edgy
could be somewhat aggressive.

Also, as Scott pointed out, corresponding updates to the udev subsystem (and
possibly other related packages) would need to track the new kernel.

In principle, I'm not opposed to kernel backports, but understand that the
issues are complex and someone dedicated and knowledgeable would need to
tend to them.

-- 
 - mdz