Bug#700884: linux: please use a three-number version for experimental kernel packages

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

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