Package: user-mode-linux
Version: 5.10-um1
The package user-mode-linux is built from the debian package linux-source which
follows semantic versioning guidelines. The version used for the
user-mode-linux package isn't descriptive enough, only using the major and
minor release and dropping the minor release.
The package should have the same version as the version of linux-source used to
build the binary package. Consider:
$ apt-cache show user-mode-linux | grep 'Version\|Built-Using'
Version: 5.10um1
Built-Using: linux (= 5.10.4-1)
$ linux --version
5.10.4
This can result in the user-mode-linux package getting out of sync compared to
the linux-source package, potentially loosing some useful patches, bug-fixes
and security updates along the way. Since the linux-source package also
includes debian-specific kernel patches, it is best to track the linux-source
version rather than kernel.org version.
I've written a quick-and-dirty watch file to attempt to track the linux package
tags: https://salsa.debian.org/uml-team/user-mode-linux/-/merge_requests/7
thanks,
Christopher Obbard
