• stretch update of linux but not linux-latest?

    From Lucas Nussbaum@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 12 22:10:01 2020
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    Hi,

    I might have missed something obvious, but I don't think I understand
    how security updates of linux are managed in terms of suites.

    On 2019-11-24, due to https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2019/msg00215.html,
    linux was updated to 4.9.189-3+deb9u2 in oldstable.

    However, this resulted in a new binary package:
    linux-image-4.9.0-11-amd64. The linux-latest source package was not
    updated in oldstable-security, so linux-image-amd64=4.9+80+deb9u6 still
    depends on linux-image-4.9.0-8-amd64.

    Later, on 2020-01-30, linux-latest was updated to 80+deb9u10 in
    oldstable.

    For systems that rely on normal apt-get (dist-)upgrades, I think that it
    means that the kernel was not updated automatically before 2020-01-30.

    For systems relying on unattended-upgrades, which only upgrades from debian-security, it means that they are stuck with
    linux-image-4.9.0-8-amd64.

    Is that the expected behaviour? Shouldn't linux-latest be updated at the
    same time as linux?

    Thanks

    Lucas

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