On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 04:57:40AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > At some point in the past, I wrote: > >> The 2.6.8 release has been almost exclusively focused on stabilization. > >> I highly recommend adopting as much of 2.6.8 as possible if not the > >> whole delta between 2.6.7 and 2.6.8. If not incrementing the version > >> number after freeze is the primary constraint, I'd literally recommend > >> just marking the delta to reach virgin 2.6.8 as an add-on patch in the > >> 2.6.7-deb repository while leaving the version number intact. > > On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 08:38:23AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > I don't understand this, what would be the gain over doing real > > 2.6.8 packages ? > > It would be a loss vs. shipping real 2.6.8 packages. The only use of > such a technique would be to satisfy a constraint on version numbers.
I don't think it is needed to resort to such tricks. Friendly, Sven Luther
