Re: Kernel version 100
Ladislav Bodnar wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 October 2004 22:15, Norbert Tretkowski wrote:
> > > Just curious: any particular reason why the kernel version is
> > > reported as "100" on
> > > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/allpackages?
> > >
> > > kernel-image-2.6-386 (100)
> > > Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on 386.
> >
> > This is just a meta-package, which depends on the latest 2.6 kernel
> > available.
>
> Yes, but it used to have a proper version number in the parenthesis not
> so long ago.
100 is also a proper version number.
> Why the sudden change?
The way the metapackage was built changed, so the version number was
increased by an arbitrary amount.
Thiemo
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