Super long-term kernel support

Dear Helmut, I am involved in CIP and although I am not participating directly in the conversations between Debian LTS devs and CIP I can tell you that the sentence should have said something like:

"CIP is DISCUSSING with Debian to provide longer-term support of a subset of packages, to improve cross-compilation support, and to improve the sharing of DEP-5 license information."

Knowing how accurate Jonathan C. usually is, probably Yoshi, the speaker from CIP (Toshiba) used the wrong verb. If that was the case, I am sure it was far from his intention to offend anybody or attribute to CIP any work that has not taken place yet.

In any case, CIP and some Debian developers from LTS are just talking for now about a variety of topics. CIP needs first to learn how Debian LTS works, then what sources is CIP interested on to create and maintain for a very long time an industrial grade base system and finally how this Linux Foundation Initiative can actively participate together with Debian in maintenance tasks, as we are currently doing with the Linux kernel 4.4-stable.

In order to demonstrate the interest, besides talking, CIP sponsored DebConf in 2017 and will again in 2018, as far as I know. CIP will increase this year its presence in DebConf as part of our learning process and a meeting related with this topic is expected in Taiwan, at the event.