These packages currently have quite meaningless version numbers:
firmware-free and linux-base were originally part of linux-2.6,
therefore version 2.6.x-y. When they were separated out, their versions
jumped to 3, and they are both now 3.x.
firmware-nonfree has always been version 0.x.
The linux-base package has been used partly to deal with transitions,
therefore it might be useful to signal which release the package is
targetted at:
<debian-major>.<serial-minor>
The firmware-free and firmware-nonfree packages are now effectively
downstream of linux-firmware.git, which does not have tagged versions
(and is not likely to, because what would they mean?). We could use the
last commit date as the version, matching Fedora's linux-firmware
package and openSUSE's kernel-firmware package.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Q. Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy?
A. I don't know and I couldn't care less.
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