On Wed, 2014-11-19 at 07:11 -0800, David Boyce wrote: > I believe the reason many Linux distributions were so slow to move > from 3.81 to 3.82 is that 3.82 introduced an incompatibility which > affected the ability to build (among other things) Linux kernels > predating 3.82.
Not to reopen old wounds (lord knows we don't need more of that in the F/OSS community these days), but the issue in the Linux kernel makefiles was small (a few makefiles needed trivial changes) and was fixed back in Linux version 2.6.34... it's been a long time since any Debian/Ubuntu release was based on such an old kernel. But you could be right: I don't know the reasons why they decided not to upgrade. I assume Ubuntu just uses what Debian uses. Some bugs have been forwarded from the Debian BTS but if any of them were RC-level bugs it wasn't made clear to me. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
