On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 17:44 +0100, Greg Stark wrote: > Just wondering but is it intentional that the kernel packages for > 4.0.2 have /boot/vmlinuz-4.0.0-1-amd64 and modules in > /lib/modules/4.0.0-1.amd64 ? Yes. > I know there are circumstances where the Debian and upstream versions > are intentionally distinct and, for example, sonames needn't match > package versions. But this seems needlessly confusing and risky in > this case and looks, at least to my eye more likely to be an > unintentional oversight than an intentional setting. I don't recall > things being like this in earlier branches like 2.6 or 3.19. Am I > wrong? We did try dropping the third dotted component, starting with 3.4, but this broke some userland programs so I reverted this shortly before jessie release: linux (3.16.7-1) unstable; urgency=medium [...] * Add '.0' to the kernel version string (Closes: #742226, #745984) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. - Harrison
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