linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.0-rc1

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Date:	Mon, 30 May 2011 08:01:10 +0200
From:	Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 3.0-rc1

On Monday 30 of May 2011, CaT wrote:
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 06:30:32PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Now, my alpha-maleness sadly does not actually extend to all the
> > scripts and Makefile rules, so the kernel is fighting back, and is
> > calling itself 3.0.0-rc1. We'll have the usual 6-7 weeks to wrestle it
> > into submission, and get scripts etc cleaned up, and the final release
> > should be just "3.0". The -stable team can use the third number for
> > their versioning.
> 
> Why not just keep the sublevel 0 for your release and let stable team
> modify it for their release. That way you release 3.0.0, 3.1.0, 3.2.0
> and stable do 3.0.1, 3.1.3, 3.2.1, etc. Less script breakage that way.

I guess some distros will do that way on their own.

-- 
Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
arekm / maven.pl            http://ftp.pld-linux.org/
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