RE: Why is the kernel in testing so far behind what's current?

Hi,

I would assume at some point you freeze changes to the distro so you can test against a known setup, ie a case of manageability.

regards

Steven

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Wiseman [mailto:pwiseman@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, 13 May 2009 4:04 p.m.
To: Debian User Lists
Subject: Why is the kernel in testing so far behind what's current?

According to the Linux Kernel Archives: The latest stable version of
the Linux kernel is: 2.6.29.3. So why is the latest kernel in
testing 2.6.26?

Patrick


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