Re: linux-2.2.20a and gcc 3.0 ?

[Zack Weinberg]

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.

zw