Just when you thought 2.6 would go on forever...

[Stefan Bader]

On 30.05.2011 10:54, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>
>> And as a side note from Colin Watson:
>>
>> "so regarding 3.0; the kernel team knows that 3.0.0<  3.0 as far as dpkg is
>> concerned, right?  we'll need to be careful when uploading the RCs ..."
>>
>> "you can use 3.0~3.0.0-<whatever>  or similar..."
>
> The changelog for 3.0-rc1:
>
>      Linux 3.0-rc1
>
>      .. except there are various scripts that really know that there are
>      three numbers, so it calls itself "3.0.0-rc1".
>
>      Hopefully by the time the final 3.0 is out, we'll have that extra
>      zero all figured out.
>
>      Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds<torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
>
> If there's something you need w.r.t. the "extra zero", I'd say now is
> the time to speak up :)
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Jeremy
>

I guess the "interesting" part is how stable/longterm will fit in. Will those 
take up the free SUBLEVEL or still put the additional digit into EXTRAVERSION?
And will they start with 0 or 1. I wished I had some voices telling. :)

-Stefan