[kakwa_]

> LTS kernels are no longer supported for 6 years because it turns out no one used them.

Looking quickly at Debian, old old stable (10) uses 4.19, old stable (11) 5.10, and stable (12) 6.1. All these versions are LTS kernels.

I don't think Debian uses LTS kernel branches as is, instead cherry picking patches, but it seems they do leverage LTS branches, at least to ease the back-porting I presume.

I'm probably missing something, and looking through the Debian mailing lists, I've not seen any discussion about the end of long term LTS kernels, but it seemed they did rely on it to a degree.

Maybe it was more of a nice to have, but from the outside (I'm neither a kernel or Debian maintainer), it leaves me a bit confused.