Bug#301799: kernel-tree-2.6.11: new upstream source available: 2.6.11.6
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 04:55:57PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Horms wrote:
> > > > with 2.6.11.X, including the numbering (i.e. next upload should be
> > > > kernel-source-2.6.11, package version 2.6.11.6-1).
> > >
> > > I agree it would be good to sync up the patches,
> > > but I don't think there is any need to include the
> > > .6 in the debian version as we never did this for 2.6.8.
> >
> > It is much more user-friendly, and it readly provides information on the
> > most up-to-date tree it was synced with, in aptitude/dselect/synaptic...
>
> The kernel usually also includes backports from newer versions, the
> fourth level would thus lead to incorrect assumptions. The Debian
> kernel is not simply the upstream version in Debian packaging.
Yes I agree.
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Horms
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