Am 25.05.2011 17:20, schrieb Bernardo Barros:
Hi there,
There are rumors that the next version number of the Linux Kernel is going to be 3.0. Since we choosed 'kernel26' as the package name, we will have to modify it anyway. Why not just 'linux 3.0'? Just an idea.. since we have the fellow project 'Arch Hurd' providing 'hurd' as an alternative different kernel already.
This is a non-issue. The package name was wrong all along, so why not let it remain wrong? There are always potential problems with replacing packages, in this case the backup-file /etc/mkinitcpio.d/kernel26.preset which will not be kept with such a change. Changing file names in /boot is another such problem. That said, at some point we might fix that name, and the package name should be 'linux', of course.