The changelog says 2.6.25-r4 is stable: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/ChangeLog?view=markup p.g.o doesn't agree: http://packages.gentoo.org/package/gentoo-sources Reproducible: Always
You appear to be reading the changelog incorrectly: *gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r4 (17 May 2008) > gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r4 was added on this date (this line appears whenever a new version of a package is added so people can quickly see where to trace the history from. 17 May 2008; Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> +gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r4.ebuild: Update to Linux 2.6.25.4 > Normal (More verbose) message about changes 14 May 2008; Tobias Klausmann <klausman@gentoo.org> gentoo-sources-2.6.24-r8.ebuild: Stable on alpha > Normal message about changes. Note that these changes were made to 2.6.24-r8, not 2.6.25.4 12 May 2008; Raúl Porcel <armin76@gentoo.org> gentoo-sources-2.6.24-r8.ebuild: ia64/sparc stable > Normal message about changes. Note that these changes were made to 2.6.24-r8, not 2.6.25.4 12 May 2008; Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> gentoo-sources-2.6.24-r8.ebuild: Stable on x86/amd64 > Normal message about changes. Note that these changes were made to 2.6.24-r8, not 2.6.25.4 I hope that helps to clear things up for you.
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