[arch-general] Future of 'kernel26'

[Thomas S Hatch]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Jelle van der Waa <jelle at vdwaa.nl> wrote:

> On 05/25/2011 05:20 PM, Bernardo Barros wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Best,
>> Bernardo
>>
> When the rumours are over and linux is going to release his first rc1, then
> it would make sense to rename kernel26 to linux3.0.
> Except that the lts version will be still kernel26-lts, so maybe kernel3.0
> would be better. I'm sure Tobias will come up with a nice solution :)
>
>
> --
> Jelle van der Waa
>
>
Heh, yes, in the end Tobias will give us a great solution. I imagine he has
long had plans for how to handle this!