On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 09:42 +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> Revision 16224 of svn://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel/dists/trunk/linux-2.6
> enabled "use strict;" and "use warnings;" for the perl based maintainer
> scripts of linux-image-@upstreamversion@@abiname@@localversion@, this in
> turn exposed that the numeric '+=' operator is used to concatenate
> $message and $dir_message variables; this patch fixes this by using the
> string operator '.='.
Thanks for testing and reporting this. This sort of stupid bug is
exactly why we need those directives. However, given that this bug was
introduced by:
kernel-package (10.037) unstable; urgency=medium
...
* Vy popular demand, we toned down the checks for overwriting previously
installed kernels. Instead of checking for /lib/modules/$version, we
only check is /lib/modules/$version/kernel exists. This means that
third party modules shall not trigger any interactions with the user;
it is up to the users to handle incompatibilites between previously
installed third party modules and the new kernel. No check on
official kernel images -- any incompatibilities should result in an
ABI number change.
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:24:16 -0600
and makes the check() subroutine completely useless, and no-one seems to
have complained, I think we could just remove it.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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