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Re: When did the naming convention for linux-source- change?



On Wed, 2013-07-10 at 15:17 +0300, Борислав Събев wrote:
> Thanks, Bastian.
> 
> 
> But, hmm, so in the future if the upstream version changes again to
> something like 3.4.32 the same will happen or the major version will
> stay?
[...]

The version number included in linux-source-* package names (and
linux-doc-*, linux-manual-*, linux-kbuild-* and linux-tools-*) is a
version assigned by Linus, not including any -rc qualifier.  We expect
that you might want to install a version based on a specific Linus
release (or multiple different Linus releases) because of incompatible
feature changes, but not that you would want to specify which stable
update to get.

If Linus switches to making 4.x.y releases, or single-number releases,
then that's what we'll put in the package names.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction.

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