Questions about LTS backports to Hardy

[Tim Gardner]

Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:41:02PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
>> I wondered about having a meta package which was linux-jaunty which gave
>> you the jaunty kernel on hardy.
> 
> I was thinking this would look better than putting the upstream version
> number in the metapackage names, but have no real objections either way.
> 

I'm of the opinion that Jaunty means more to those of us that lived
through it, and therefore has less meaning to those outside our cloister.

A kernel version number is deterministic in the continuum of version
numbers, and will likely have more meaning to the non-Ubuntu initiate.
Outside of the development community, all of our public communications
_do_ use deterministic version numbers to refer to our releases instead
of adjectives.

rtg
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