Re: 2.6.8 release
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.
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