Bug#700884: linux: please use a three-number version for experimental kernel packages

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

Control: tag -1 wontfix

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:15:11PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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> That's using a kernel three releases newer than the userland.  We
> generally like backward compatibility, but I don't it's tenable to go
> that far.

I quite agree.  We've kept the fake '.0' for wheezy to keep old
userland working but at the risk of confusing users ('why aren't you
including stable updates?').  I don't want to carry on with that
workaround.

(Actually, I would like to fix things so that bumping the kernel
version string is not such a pain during a stable release.  So a
real third version component might be added at some point.)

> Does the uname26 program from
> http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux/kernel/people/ak/uname26/ help?
 
Recent versions of setarch can do the same; debootstrap could try to
use that when necessary.

Ben.

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