Control: severity -1 normal On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 23:47 +0100, Javier Barroso wrote: > Package: initramfs-tools > Version: 0.118 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > > * What led up to the situation? > Running update-initramfs -u did not choose the latest installed kernel > version. > > dpkg --compare-versions doesn't play well with current kernel version > scheme > > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > Run update-initramfs -u > > * What was the outcome of this action? > update-initramfs chose 3.16-rc5-amd64 > > * What outcome did you expect instead? > update-initramfs would chosen 3.16-3-amd64 version > > I'm attaching a possible patch. Maybe changing version scheme to -0-rc > would be more dpkg compatible behaviour, so this patch is not needed. > > I don't think that teaching dpkg --compare-version about this issue is a > better solution. (I think dpkg maintainers would complaint about) [...] It should really use the linux-version command from linux-base. Thanks for pointing this out. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin
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