On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 01:51:20AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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 > > D-I constrains the debian revision which would have to change. Bumping > the revision or the version is about the same amount of work to get it > being used. So no gain there.
And its too late for d-i anyway, was probably already last week. Even my 2.6.7-4 .udeb kernels didn't make it in. Friendly, Sven Luther
