Re: Proposed changes to linux package

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Hi Bastian,

On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 03:27:24PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 11:15:05AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 10:59:30AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > > I would like to do some last minute changes to the linux package
> > # Drop special case use of rcX as abi name
> > 
> > While having the ability to distiguish between different RC, it changes
> > the package names every time.
> 
> Or should we just go for 0?  This would also remove the ordering
> weirdness a lot of people experienced.

So instead of having linux-image-6.1.0-rc2-amd64 (for version
6.1~rc2-1~exp1) that would have been linux-image-6.1.0-0-amd64 and so
sorting before linux-image-6.1.0-1-amd64 once we go to an unstable
upload with ABI 1, correct?

Your suggestion sounds like a sensible idea. The distinguishing about
the rc releases would be easier if we retain the former variant, but I
assume concerns for those experimental targeting uploads is less of an
issue.

Ben, opinions on it?

Regards,
Salvatore