Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:01:43 -0800 | From | Zack Weinberg <> | Subject | Re: linux-2.2.20a and gcc 3.0 ? |
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On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 02:09:09PM +0100, Stefan Smietanowski wrote: > > I know how it's done, it's just that in my eyes a stable release is the > one where you know there's only 1 .... A 2.95.4 package built on > different days (from CVS) will differ. A 2.95.4 package built on > different ways from a .tar.gz marked as 'release' will not differ. > > For instance chasing a kernel bug is difficult when 1 person might use 1 > version of a compiler and another uses a different version when both > says 2.95.4, no matter how miniscule the difference.
Since patches are being applied to the 2.95 branch at a rate of about one a month, I think the date stamp in the version number should be quite sufficient to avoid any problems along these lines.
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