[Secure-testing-team] Bug#768327: linux-image-amd64: Inclusion of 3.17 kernel in place of 3.16 kernel

[Abhisek Mukherjee]

Package: linux-image-amd64
Version: 3.16+62
Severity: wishlist
Tags: security

Hi,

As I know currently freeze for Jessie happend on 5th November, 2014 and earlier
communications suggests that kernel 3.16 has been chosen as a base for Jessie.
As of 30th October 2014, 3.16.7 is the latest and last version for kernel 3.16
as it reached EOL.

Currently keeping the 3.16 kernel for Jessie, which is due next year and will
be supported for years to come afterwards, choosing a EOL kernel is both an
extra headache for backporting security vulnerabilities fixes and featureset
addition.

I suggest we can use 3.18 kernel which will hopefully be a future LTS release
or the next LTS kernel for Jessie.

Warm Regards
Abhisek Mukherjee



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages linux-image-amd64 depends on:
ii  linux-image-3.16-3-amd64  3.16.5-1

linux-image-amd64 recommends no packages.

linux-image-amd64 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information