Re: [PROPOSAL] 2.4.27 as default 2.4 kernel for sarge

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Christoph Hellwig writes:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:47:29AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > > It will be 2.6.8.
> > 
> > If you write 2.6.8, do you mean 2.6.8.1? Or is the diff to .1 included
> > in the Debian packages? I cannot find a hint and the version number is
> > misleading.
> 
> Given the diff to .1 is tiny and four-digit version numbers are breaking
> lots of things (there's even rumors of breaking the nptl detection in
> glibc, but given that debian _still_ doesn't have a tls-capable
> toolchain on ppc I couldn't test it) we've decided to stay with 2.6.8.

please make this decision explicit, document it in a prominent place,
i.e. package description, README.Debian.

Thanks, Matthias