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Re: Debian Kernel version and ABI in respect of #1040901



Hi

On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 11:28:31PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 09:16:15PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > ### NMU
> > Can be easily added back by adding "bX" or so to the ABI.
> That would be confusing, bX is naming convention for binNMUs in Debian 
> revisions.

Right.

> > ### BinNMU
> > 
> > Is impossible to support.  The version change requires changes in the
> > names of the created packages.
> >...
> It should only be impossible to make them co-installable,
> or what other reason requires a rename?

The contents are incompatible.  We can of course completely remove the
ability to load modules after a kernel upgrade and then install
everything into "linux-image-amd64".

Bastian

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