kernel^W linux upgrade via apt

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:57:14AM -0500, Lawrence MacIntyre wrote:

> This is confusing to many people (including myself) because the version
> names on the kernel-image packages include ubuntu, but synaptic doesn't
> mark them as supported by ubuntu (the ubuntu icon doesn't precede them),

Which kernel-image package are you speaking of?  None of the kernel-image
packages in hoary have ubuntu version numbers.

> but the linux-image packages don't have ubuntu in their version names but
> they do have the ubuntu icon.  What is the reason behind this apparent
> inconsistency?

An 'ubuntu' version number indicates that the package came from Debian but
contains Ubuntu-specific modifications.  This is orthogonal to the package's
status as supported in Ubuntu.

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 - mdz