On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 10:53:34PM -0700, Ray Lee wrote: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Beside that, no matter what, you are about to break > > `/usr/sbin/sensors-detect' (from my Fedora 14), which rely on a 3 > > digits version number: > > Is there really any compelling technical reason to _not_ have Linus > release the kernels with a superfluous .0 on the end, with the > understanding that the -stable team gets to increment it for their > future releases? It'd make every kernel.org release exactly three > dotted decimals from here on out, which certainly simplifies things. > > It seems like we're just borrowing trouble here by trying to drop it > down to two numbers. > > (Not, mind you, that I give a damn at all one way or the other, but it > feels like you all are going to be spending a lot of time tripping > over poor assumptions in userspace rather than doing actual work.) you have forgotten the rule that linus himself is allowed to break userland. :P in Debian an three digit 3.0.0 release would also be very much appreciated as dpkg will order wrongly 3.0.0~rcX to 3.0. -- maks -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
