Re: Linux 3.0-rc1

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2011-05-30T06:01:16Z

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.

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