Re: New kernel image naming structure

[Adam Warner <lists@consulting.net.nz>]

Hi Paul Cupis,

>> All the upgrade packages would provide is a dependency upon the
>> latest relevant kernel image and a conflict with previous (perhaps
>> n-2) binary versions so that previous build versions can be easily
>> removed or purged at the same time packages are upgraded.
>>
>> With an upgrade package installed one would never need to search for
>> the latest relevant version of a Debian kernel package, even with
>> newer upstream kernel versions.
> 
> We have this in testing and unstable already:
> 
> paul@kippax:~$ apt-cache show kernel-image-2.4-686

Woo hoo! And I even predicted the package name (it was a tossup between
2.4 or 2.4.x :-)

Also, thanks for the replies Mathieu and Hasso.

Regards,
Adam