Re: Release of 2.4.21

Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Thu, 20 Mar 2003 20:42:18 +0000


On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:34:07PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> For critical fixes, release a 2.4.20.1, 2.4.20.2, etc. Don't disrupt
> the 2.4.21-pre cycle, that would be less productive than just patching
> 2.4.20 and rolling a separate release off of that.

I think the naming is illogical. If there's a bugfix-only release
it whould have normal incremental numbers. So if marcelo want's
it he should clone a tree of at 2.4.20, apply the essential patches
and bump the version number in the normal 2.4 tree to 2.4.22-pre1

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