Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc1
From: Matt Mackall (mpm_at_selenic.com)
Date: 08/24/04
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:42:45 -0500 To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 12:49:24AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Administrative trivia, and one thing I agonized over: should I make the
> patches relative to 2.6.8 or 2.6.8.1? I decided that since there is
> nothing that says that a "basic bug-fix" releases for a previous release
> might not happen _after_ we've done a -rc release for the next version, I
> can't sanely do patches against a bugfix release.
>
> Thus the 2.6.9-rc1 patch is against plain 2.6.8. If you have 2.6.8.1, you
> need to undo the .1 patch, and apply the big one. BK users and tar-balls
> don't see that particular confusion, of course ;)
Phew, I was worried about that. Can I get a ruling on how you intend
to handle a x.y.z.1 to x.y.z.2 transition? I've got a tool that I'm
looking to unbreak. My preference would be for all x.y.z.n patches to
be relative to x.y.z.
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