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Bug#600430: linux-2.6: genorig.py does not handle 4-part versions



On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 22:57 +0200, Jakob Bohm wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:51:08AM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 06:39:35AM +0200, Jakob Bohm wrote:
> > > Since several years back, kernel.org has provided linux tarballs
> > > with both 3 part (e.g. 2.6.35) and 4 part (e.g. 2.6.35.7) version
> > > numbers in their filenames.
> > 
> > This package is for building Debian kernels that always use the three
> > part version.
> > 
> 
> Reopen.
> 
> The instructions in README.source (the first part) are
> explicitly about how to upgrade the package to a new *upstream*
> source tarball from kernel.org and turning that into a
> Debian-form tarball usable with the rest of the package.
> 
> Therefore rejecting this bug with reference to all *other* parts
> of the package being for Debian pre-packaged kernel sources is
> nonsense.

We never treat stable updates as new upstream versions.  You are
inventing new requirements for README.source.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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