Bug#636010: [linux-2.6] Please rename source to linux

2012-06-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2012-06-03 at 14:56 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2012-06-03 at 01:50 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > > We would certainly like to do this, but we want to find a way to do so > > > while properly tracking bugs that may apply to both the old 'linux-2.6

Bug#636010: [linux-2.6] Please rename source to linux

2012-06-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2012-06-03 at 01:50 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > We would certainly like to do this, but we want to find a way to do so > > while properly tracking bugs that may apply to both the old 'linux-2.6' > > and the new 'linux'. > > Based on experience of the git-cor

Bug#636010: [linux-2.6] Please rename source to linux

2012-06-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Ben Hutchings wrote: > We would certainly like to do this, but we want to find a way to do so > while properly tracking bugs that may apply to both the old 'linux-2.6' > and the new 'linux'. Based on experience of the git-core -> git renaming: The only downside I know of is that you have to look

Bug#636010: [linux-2.6] Please rename source to linux

2012-06-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 10:14 +0200, Clara Gnos wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Severity: wishlist > > To use the name linux-2.6 for the source package is quite misleading. Maybe > it > is better to drop this -2.6 appendix and use the name linux as Linus Torvalds > does since the release of 3.0 [1]

Bug#636010: [linux-2.6] Please rename source to linux

2011-07-30 Thread Clara Gnos
Package: linux-2.6 Severity: wishlist To use the name linux-2.6 for the source package is quite misleading. Maybe it is better to drop this -2.6 appendix and use the name linux as Linus Torvalds does since the release of 3.0 [1]. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/20/371 --- System information.