Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

[Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:13:35 -0400 (EDT), Wayne wrote:
> dpkg -l linux-image |grep ^i
> 
>  will show you that the version, -3, changed.  The name did not.

Not exactly.  The -3 is an upstream version number, and is part of the
Debian package name.  linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 and
linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 are two different packages and can be
installed and removed separately.  They are both derived from the
same source package, which is linux-source-2.6.32.  However, 
linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 is derived from a newer Debian version of
linux-source-2.6.32 than the Debian version from which
linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 is derived.  The same is true for
all architectures (i386, amd64, ia64, etc.).

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