Received: from trent.utfs.org (trent.utfs.org [IPv6:2a03:3680:0:3::67]) by gbr-app-1.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4A8F3223083 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2023 10:47:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [IPv6:::1]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by trent.utfs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0D2E95F834; Wed, 1 Feb 2023 11:47:07 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2023 11:47:06 +0100 (CET) From: Christian Kujau To: alice cc: alpine-user@lists.alpinelinux.org Subject: Re: linux-lts vs. linux-edge In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <521c074c-b160-1cf5-c473-d5735b3e44ea@nerdbynature.de> References: <11ef5892-ee4f-fab7-4eda-81eaca667ee8@nerdbynature.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 31 Jan 2023, alice wrote: > lts follows latest lts, and edge follows latest stable. as mentioned in the Which "lts" are you referring to? kernel.org has 5.15.91 declared as "longterm", latest stable is indeed 6.1.8 (well, 6.1.9 as of today). > other response, the intention was that 6.1 would be the next lts, ncopa just > seemingly made that change early. Yes, that could be. However, as GregKH mentione before, only the pointy-hair-crystal-ball knows which versions will end up being LTS :-) > you say "are basically the same, and have been for some time", but it has been > ~1.5 months since this specific upgrade, not multiple years of following the Ah, good to know. So both versions *were* actually different, I just looked at a time when both versions converged. > on top of that, the change is only **in the edge branch**. alpine indeed only > ships the latest lts in stable releases, nothing changed. That's true, that's the price of running -edge :-) Thanks for responding, Christian. [0] https://people.kernel.org/gregkh/next-long-term-supported-kernel-release -- BOFH excuse #174: Backbone adjustment