Oracular Oriole (to be 24.10) now in Kernel Feature Freeze

[Timo Aaltonen]

Matthias Klose kirjoitti 16.9.2024 klo 12.49:
> On 13.09.24 10:48, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We are now under the Kernel Feature Freeze for Oracular Oriole:
>>
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelFeatureFreeze
>>
>> This means that all the new features for the kernel (6.11) have landed 
>> in oracular-proposed, and from now on we will focus on fixing bugs.
>>
>>
>>
>> On behalf of the Kernel team,
> 
> The oracular release pocket still has the linux-libc-dev user space 
> headers from 6.8 (the same major version that was released with noble). 
> The oracular release pocket never saw any newer user space headers, and 
> we were doing our test rebuilds for oracular with the old user space 
> headers.
> 
> Now when 6.11 migrated to the release pocket, we are flying blind with 
> these updates to the user space headers, not knowing anything what fails 
> to build and what stops working.
> 
> I think we should avoid that situation, as updating affected packages at 
> this point requires much more work during freezes.  Please consider 
> providing the updated linux-libc-dev package a few weeks before feature 
> freeze in the future.

That was the intent, but nvidia updates blocked the new kernel from 
migrating, and all attempts to make it happen without needing a hammer 
failed, and in the end I had to remove the old l-r-m's anyway to get the 
new kernels in the release..



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t