kernel updates

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 04:29:18PM -0400, Alvin Thompson wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 11:14 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > I don't know where you thought you saw these, but Breezy has never seen a
> > kernel newer than 2.6.12.  Of course, our 2.6.12 has been through many
> > revisions: we're currently up to 2.6.12-8.12 (the 8th compatibility change,
> > the 12th revision).
> 
> i think the confusion is that the package shows up in synaptic as
> '2.6.12.12' instead of '2.6.12-8.12'. as of this moment synaptic says
> the most recent kernel is '2.6.12.14'.

The relevant version number is that of the package containing the kernel
you are running (linux-image-x.y.z...).  2.6.12.14 is the version number of
the metapackage which selects the default kernel for you.

Kernel team, perhaps we should use a different version numbering scheme for
the metapackage to avoid this confusion...

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 - mdz