Bug#570318: grub: -trunk kernel obsolete

Ben Hutchings ben at decadent.org.uk
Sat Sep 4 18:52:10 UTC 2010


On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 16:44 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2010-09-04 03:16, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Yes, this is a serious issue - we are still seeing new bug reports on
> > the obsolete 2.6.32-trunk kernel packages, and this seems to be the
> > reason.
> 
> But knowing these issues, was it really neccessary to reintroduce
> packages with a "trunk" abiversion? (*-2.6.35-trunk-* in experimental?)
> Wouldn't something like "0trunk" trivially sort before (i.e. older than)
> "1"?

We never set a stable ABI number in uploads to experimental, so this
isn't a problem.  (The first 2.6.32-trunk upload was intended to go to
experimental too.)

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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