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Bug#563313: that's not fair!



Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 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.
>
>   

Oh, OK, sorry for the misunderstanding! I tried 2.6.32-5 and it works fine!



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