Re: 2.6.8 release

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 04:57:40AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> At some point in the past, I wrote:
> >> The 2.6.8 release has been almost exclusively focused on stabilization.
> >> I highly recommend adopting as much of 2.6.8 as possible if not the
> >> whole delta between 2.6.7 and 2.6.8. If not incrementing the version
> >> number after freeze is the primary constraint, I'd literally recommend
> >> just marking the delta to reach virgin 2.6.8 as an add-on patch in the
> >> 2.6.7-deb repository while leaving the version number intact.
> 
> On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 08:38:23AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > I don't understand this, what would be the gain over doing real
> > 2.6.8 packages ?
> 
> It would be a loss vs. shipping real 2.6.8 packages. The only use of
> such a technique would be to satisfy a constraint on version numbers.

I don't think it is needed to resort to such tricks.

Friendly,

Sven Luther