Re: Renaming linux-2.6 source package, keeping bugs

2012-06-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 15:12 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 21:21 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 02:44:31PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 14:13 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > [...] > > > > Given the number of bugs involved, perhap

Re: Renaming linux-2.6 source package, keeping bugs

2012-05-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 21:21 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 02:44:31PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 14:13 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: [...] > > > Given the number of bugs involved, perhaps we > > > need to teach debbugs that "linux-2.6" should be consid

Re: Renaming linux-2.6 source package, keeping bugs

2012-01-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 02:44:31PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 14:13 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 01:39:20PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Since Linux 3.x is a continuation of the 2.6.x series and not a major > > > change, there was no need to c

Re: Renaming linux-2.6 source package, keeping bugs

2011-08-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 14:13 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 01:39:20PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Since Linux 3.x is a continuation of the 2.6.x series and not a major > > change, there was no need to create a new source package for it. > > However, we should now rename th

Re: Renaming linux-2.6 source package, keeping bugs

2011-08-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 01:39:20PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Since Linux 3.x is a continuation of the 2.6.x series and not a major > change, there was no need to create a new source package for it. > However, we should now rename the source package to 'linux'. > > Currently, most of our bugs a

Renaming linux-2.6 source package, keeping bugs

2011-08-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
Since Linux 3.x is a continuation of the 2.6.x series and not a major change, there was no need to create a new source package for it. However, we should now rename the source package to 'linux'. Currently, most of our bugs are assigned to 'linux-2.6' or 'src:linux-2.6' so that version-tracking wo