[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] Bug#979977: Bug#979977: raspi-firmware: Seems to ignore latest installed kernel (5.10.0-1-armmp-lpae) while the booting kernel is older (5.10.0-trunk-armmp-lpae)

[Diederik de Haas]

On Wednesday, 9 November 2022 14:42:01 CET Diederik de Haas wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 11:04:29 -0600 Gunnar Wolf <gwolf at debian.org> wrote:
> > Now... What to do here? I think dpkg --compare-versions here agreees
> > 
> > with the simplistic ordering set by ls:
> >      $ if dpkg --compare-versions 5.10.0-trunk-armmp-lpae gt
> >      5.10.0-1-armmp-lpae
> >      then
> > 	echo trunk is larger
> >      else
> >                  echo 1 is larger
> >      fi
> >      trunk is larger
> > 
> > How would you suggest to check for this?
> 
> Merging https://salsa.debian.org/debian/raspi-firmware/-/merge_requests/27 ?
> IOW: use the kernel tooling to compare kernel versions.

The kernel-team no longer uses '-trunk' for non-ABI-tracked kernels (usually 
uploaded to Experimental), but uses '-0' now.
Which means that simple comparison that is currently used, should no longer 
give the wrong result.
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