Ladislav Bodnar wrote: > On Tuesday 26 October 2004 22:15, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > > > Just curious: any particular reason why the kernel version is > > > reported as "100" on > > > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/allpackages? > > > > > > kernel-image-2.6-386 (100) > > > Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on 386. > > > > This is just a meta-package, which depends on the latest 2.6 kernel > > available. > > Yes, but it used to have a proper version number in the parenthesis not > so long ago.
100 is also a proper version number. > Why the sudden change? The way the metapackage was built changed, so the version number was increased by an arbitrary amount. Thiemo
