Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:49:57 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Release Policy [was: Linux 2.4.16 ] |
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Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>> >>Consistency is a Very Good Thing[TM] (says the one who tries to teach >>scripts to understand the naming.) The advantage with the -rc naming is >>that it avoids the -pre5, -pre6, -pre-final, -pre-final-really, >>-pre-final-really-i-mean-it-this-time phenomenon when the release >>candidate wasn't quite worthy, you just go -rc1, -rc2, -rc3. There is no >>shame in needing more than one release candidate. >> > > Agreed. I stick with the -rc naming convention for 2.4+... >
I have updated the kernel.org scripts to recognize the -rc naming convention. Any -rc patch found is assumed to be newer than any -pre patch found.
I will try to add tracking of the v2.0 and v2.2 trees sometime later this week.
-hpa
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