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Re: linux-image-3.18.0-trunk-amd64 (3.18.5-1~exp1)



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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