Ubuntu kernel labeling scheme confuses the hell out of me.

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Monday 02 March 2009 10:10:01 pm Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > It makes no sense to me to encode the stable update version in the
> > package version because there are often other unrelated bug fixes
> > bundled into the upload.
> 
> I don't think I follow, like what?
> 
> > What about those times when a kernel package is
> > uploaded without any stable upstream updates?
> 
> Not sure I follow either.

Ubuntu's kernel team does some in-house patching, ex cherry-picking from other 
upstream kernel releases or writing patches and applying them here before 
upstream accepts them.  Those can certainly be uploaded to the archive in the 
absence of a new upstream stable release.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
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