Re: 2.6.8 release
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 10:21:29AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Andres Salomon (dilinger@voxel.net) [040730 18:25]:
> > On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 16:53:37 +0100, 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
>
> > Ah, neat. This should be in the developer's reference somewhere, if it's
> > not already..
>
> ~ is _not_ allowed as part of the package name before release of sarge
> (reason: woodys tools chop on this).
What if we make the packages pre-depend on a version of dpkg/sarge that
supports it ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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