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From: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
To: Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@stesmi.com>
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Subject: Re: linux-2.2.20a and gcc 3.0 ?
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On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 10:03:21PM +0100, Stefan Smietanowski wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 
> >>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.
> 
> If it's tested and rock stable, why isn't it released?

It would be silly to generate a new 2.95.x point release every time we
fix a bug - most of them are minor, affect very few people, and the
fixes will get picked up by the distros anyway.

There probably will be a 2.95.4 official release at some point,
but again I'm not aware of any current plans.

zw
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