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Re: 2.6.8 release



* Sven Luther (sven.luther@wanadoo.fr) [040731 11:25]:
> 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 ?

The reality is harder: The incoming scripts just deny any package with
a ~ in the version. You can try to convince the ftp-masters to make an
excuse for the kernel, but I don't believe that you'll suceed.


Cheers,
Andi
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