Bug#584891: naming and versioning of linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 and linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 confusing
 

Package: linux-image-2.6
Severity: normal

due to some issues i checked today the installed kernel and was rather confused.
beside others i have installed
1) linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686
2) linux-image-2.6.32-5-686

dpkg says the versions are respectively
1) 2.6.32-5
2) 2.6.32-15

why does -trunk- have the version 2.6.32-5 while -2.6.32-5- has the version 2.6.32-15?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash


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Bug#584891: naming and versioning of linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 and linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 confusing
 

On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 14:26 +0200, arne wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6
> Severity: normal
>
> due to some issues i checked today the installed kernel and was rather confused.
> beside others i have installed
> 1) linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686
> 2) linux-image-2.6.32-5-686
>
> dpkg says the versions are respectively
> 1) 2.6.32-5
> 2) 2.6.32-15
>
> why does -trunk- have the version 2.6.32-5 while -2.6.32-5- has the version 2.6.32-15?

The number (or keyword 'trunk') after '2.6.32' is an ABI version. It is
like the version '6' that appears in the package name 'libc6' (except
that it changes much more often). So long as the ABI version stays the
same and is not 'trunk', external modules don't have to be rebuilt for a
new kernel version.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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