Bug#341104: linux-patch-debian-2.6.14: dropping EXTRAVERSION from official kernel patches

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

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 04:49:10PM +0100, Pascal A. Dupuis wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 02:55:13PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Linux version 2.6.14-2-powerpc (Debian 2.6.14-3) (waldi@debian.org) (gcc
> > version 4.0.3 20051023 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-3.sven.1)) #2 Thu Nov 10
> > 11:55:12 UTC 2005
> > 
> > This is mine, for example, and you see that it is 2.6.14-2-powerpc official
> > kernel built from debian source 2.6.14-3. 
> > 
> Sven,
> 
> thank you for your reply. Mine reads:
> Linux version 2.6.14.3 () (root@localhost) (gcc version 4.0.2 (Debian 4.0.2-2)) #1 Mon Nov 28 12:39:26 CET 2005
> 
> So ...
> 1) the 2.6.14.3 is VERSION + the EXTRAVERSION I forced with make-kpkg
> 2) the debian source is empty
> 
> The suggestion was also to avoid name clashes, i.e. 
> linux-patch-debian-2.6.14_2.6.14-2_all.deb -> applied on 2.6.14
> linux-patch-debian-2.6.14_2.6.14-3_all.deb -> applied on 2.6.14.2
> linux-patch-debian-2.6.14_2.6.14-4_all.deb -> applied on 2.6.14.3
> 
> thus, compiling with one of the three versions should not result each
> time in vmlinuz-2.6.14 but vmlinuz-2.6.14[.extraversion]

This is some magic Bastian Blank played with, Bastian, could you comment on
this ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther