Re: Linux 3.0

2011-05-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:03:01AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 30 May 2011, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On May 30, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > There are likely to be many programs and build scripts that test for a > > > kernel version prefix of '2.6' vs '2.4' and will behave inc

Re: Linux 3.0

2011-05-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 05/31/2011 04:03 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Can't we fix that in a point release, by backporting fixes? That would be appreciated! -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fi

Re: Linux 3.0

2011-05-31 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 30 May 2011, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 30, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > There are likely to be many programs and build scripts that test for a > > kernel version prefix of '2.6' vs '2.4' and will behave incorrectly when > > they find '3.0'. Others require that there are at least 3 numeric

Re: Linux 3.0

2011-05-31 Thread Adam Borowski
n't have it in Experimental either? > > Quoting the original announcement: > > > If you suspect that your packages may have such dependencies, please > > test against Linux 3.0 release candidates when they are uploaded to > > experimental (which will happen in the nex

Re: Linux 3.0

2011-05-31 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
pect that your packages may have such dependencies, please > test against Linux 3.0 release candidates when they are uploaded to > experimental (which will happen in the next few days). Best regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: Linux 3.0

2011-05-30 Thread Adnan Hodzic
> We could delay uploading it to unstable for a while if this is necessary > to allow time for fixes to userland. Would this mean we wouldn't have it in Experimental either? Adnan On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Please reply to debian-kernel as originally requested. >

Re: Linux 3.0

2011-05-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
Please reply to debian-kernel as originally requested. On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 00:09 +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du lundi 30 mai 2011, vers 18:52, Ben > Hutchings disait : > > > As you may have seen, the next version of the Linux kernel will be 3.0 > > (or 3.0

Re: Linux 3.0

2011-05-30 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du lundi 30 mai 2011, vers 18:52, Ben Hutchings disait : > As you may have seen, the next version of the Linux kernel will be 3.0 > (or 3.0.0). There is no significant API change; this just shortens the > version string and marks the start of the third decade o

Re: Linux 3.0

2011-05-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 23:12 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 30, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > There are likely to be many programs and build scripts that test for a > > kernel version prefix of '2.6' vs '2.4' and will behave incorrectly when > > they find '3.0'. Others require that there are at

Re: Linux 3.0

2011-05-30 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 30, Ben Hutchings wrote: > There are likely to be many programs and build scripts that test for a > kernel version prefix of '2.6' vs '2.4' and will behave incorrectly when > they find '3.0'. Others require that there are at least 3 numeric Expect module-init-tools and three udev scripts