Bug#563313: that's not fair!

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 02:23:20PM +0300, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
> I regularly follow testing's upgrades. So I was with 2.6.30, the sensors  
> were working fine. I got 2.6.32-3 sensors broken. And I must wait until  
> 2.6.32-12 (!) to get it working again? Why doesn't a patch slip into  
> 2.6.32-3 ??
> Am I missing something?

Yes, you are confused about the current version.

First, package names do not contain the package version.  For example,
there were several versions of linux-image-2.6.32-3-686, none of which
was version 2.6.32-3.  The number 3 here is an ABI version which is used
to associate the kernel with additional kernel modules.  Whenever the
ABI changes the additional modules must be rebuilt.  Not every package
version requires a new ABI version.

Second, the latest kernel versions appear in unstable, not testing.
As of today, version 2.6.32-12 is available in unstable.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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