On Fri, 2015-02-06 at 18:12 +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote: > Hi, > > I am comparing my own kernel-config with the ones from Ubuntu and Debian. > > Just curious for what "0" stands in "3.18.0-trunk"? > ABIVER? > It's reflecting v3.18.y where y=5 and it should be "3.18.5-trunk-amd64"? > > Thanks for clarification. In any other suite, we try to avoid changing the module ABI more often than necessary, so we don't include the real stable update number in the kernel version string. But we do have to include a third dotted component to avoid breaking some applications that depend on this. The version string in experimental should sort before any future 3.18.0-1, so 3.18.0-trunk not 3.18.5-trunk. This does require special-casing 'trunk' and 'rc', but that's all. (The next Linus release to go into unstable will actually be 3.19 or 3.20, but that's not really the point.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club.
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