Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Installing the source package for Sid linux-2.6 gets you > linux-2.6_2.6.20-3.dsc > linux-2.6_2.6.20.orig.tar.gz > linux-2.6_2.6.20-3.diff.gz > > Does that mean that the original is 2.6.20.3? No, the -3 is the number of uploads of the debian package of 2.6.20. 2.6.20-3 actually contains upstream version 2.6.20.7 as you can see in the changelog. > And are the patches all in linux-2.6_2.6.20-3.diff.gz? Well, it contains them and when applied creates files in debian/patches/ containing the individual patches. > Are those patches better described anywhere? Most of the individual patches contain a comment at the top of the file and have some sort of informative filename. I would read the changelog for more details though. -- see shy jo
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