[PATCH] Make linux-doc non-versioned, fixing 382115 and 247517

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Mon Jun 22 15:07:42 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 03:32:00PM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> As a fourth option, Steve Langasek suggested reverting the change, and
> putting it in with the first upload of .31 (when the linux source package
> version will exceed the current linux-meta source version).
> 
> This seems like it would work fine, too, so long as it's done in the right
> order:
> 
> 1. Upload patched linux-meta to remove linux-doc (but don't bump ABI)
> 
> 2. Upload new linux to rename linux-doc-x.y.z to linux-doc (and bump ABI)
> 
> 3. Upload linux-meta (and bump ABI)
> 
> Make sense?

Yes, but this is more care than you need. Simply doing 2 and 3 would be
sufficient; there's nothing to stop one source package taking over a
binary from another source package as long as version constraints are
met.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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