Re: [PROPOSAL] 2.4.27 as default 2.4 kernel for sarge
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 12:00:47PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> 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.
The changelog entries maybe ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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