On Tue, 2017-01-10 at 18:05 +0000, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 05:04:50PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I intend to upload linux version 4.9.2-1 to unstable tomorrow > > (Wednesday). As this is a new upstream version, there is of course an > > ABI bump. > > Hi. > > (Sorry if this is already reported, last time I looked at the bug page it was not) > > Is there any chance to remove the leading .0 from the binary package names? > > I know it's mostly harmless, but it's misleading anyway to have linux-image-4.8.0-2-amd64 > to really contain 4.8.11 and not 4.8.0, and if it's done for compatibility reasons, > we have done it for a lot of time already for tools to adapt. The package names need to match kernel release strings: - reportbug maps 'kernel' to linux-image-$(uname -r) and this must be a real, not virtual package - module-assistant can auto-install linux-headers-$(uname -r) when building for the current kernel release And kernel release strings with only 2 dotted components may break software in subtle or severe ways that are hard to diagnose. The previous time we tried this, we got #742226 and #745984. If we change this again it will be at the start of a release cycle, not the end. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert.
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