severity 700884 wishlist affects 700884 + coreutils quit Hi Michael,
Michael Gilbert wrote: > uname presents a two-number version in the experimental kernel packages, e.g. > > $ dpkg -l | grep linux-image > ii linux-image-3.7-trunk-amd64 3.7.3-1~experimental.1 > $ uname -r > 3.7-trunk-amd64 > > This makes it impossible to bootstrap releases older than squeeze > (when running an experimental kernel). That's using a kernel three releases newer than the userland. We generally like backward compatibility, but I don't it's tenable to go that far. Does the uname26 program from http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux/kernel/people/ak/uname26/ help? Curious, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130218201511.GE3234@elie.Belkin
