Re: Why do we have a kernel with version number - 20X?

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On 22 Jan 2013 20:35, "Josh Boyer" <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 01:23:44PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 14:13:23 -0500,
> >   Przemek Klosowski <przemek.klosowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >On 01/19/2013 05:50 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote
> > >
> > >>>The hundreds series is speific to the fedora version. Currently
> > >>>f17 is 1xx and f18 is 2xx. The purpose is to keep f18 versions
> > >>>ahead of f17 versions so that updates will work better.
> > >..
> > >>Presumably as new kernels come out the base number will change to
> > >>reflect the currently supported versions of Fedora. So that for the
> > >>3.9 kernel, f18  will probably be 1xx and f19 2xx.
> > >
> > >
> > >That's a pretty arcane scheme. Would it work to use 17xx, 18xx and
> > >19xx instead?
> >
> > Probably. Putting the release after the dist tag would also probably
> > work.
>
> We're not changing it again.  It's just a number.  The only reason
> anyone even noticed is because it was a jump, but we've already been
> doing this for months.

I agree. We really don't need a discussion as to the colour of the bike,
the people who are maintaining shed have made the decision it will work.

Peter
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