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



On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 07:20:12PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 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.
Related bugs include #742226 and #745984.

Best regards
Uwe

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