Re: 2.6.8 release

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 06:00:44PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 11:46:21AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > > > There has been some talk on IRC about what kernel to release sarge with;
> > > > some people would prefer 2.6.8 (which hasn't been released yet).  If we
> > > > want to do that, I would suggest getting a jump on stuff now by preparing
> > > > 2.6.8rc2 in svn, naming the package kernel-source-2.6.8 2.6.7+2.6.8rc2,
> > > 
> > > We can do better than that.  See bug 93386.  We can call it
> > > 2.6.8~rc2 and this will sort before 2.6.8
> > 
> > Such versioning isn't allowed pre-sarge, as it can break woody
> > upgrades.
> 
> Yes, upgrades from the kernel-source-2.6.8 that was in woody.
> Sheesh.

IIRC uploads are automatically REJECTed for that reason.


Thiemo