Re: kernel upgrade from 2.6.14-2 to 2.6.14-2?
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 01:21:52PM +0100, Michael Kollmann wrote:
> apt-get upgrade now wants to upgrade my kernel, but the version hasn't
> changed. This occured about three or four times now. But why? Is this
> intended behaviour? Shouldn't even the debian release increase?
The package name shows the ABI version. The version number shows the
actual build number. It is normal to have maybe 8 releases of
2.6.14-1-k8 before having 2.6.14-2-k8 when some ABI change was required.
The ABI change requires recompiling external kernel modules, while the
updates of the same ABI version does not. Hence the package name
doesn't change.
Just look at dpkg -l linux-image-2.6.14-2-k7 for example. It is right
now at version 2.6.14-6. The changelog says that among the changes from
-5 to -6 is updating to the 2.6.14.4 upstream sources. So this means
there have been 6 releases of 2.6.14 kernel images so far, which is not
unusual in unstable.
You can install apt-listchanges if you would like to see what has
changed whenever you upgrade packages.
Len Sorensen
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