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Bug#925379: linux-base: linux-version vmlinuz/vmlinux dichotomy, breaks at least m68k



On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 14:30 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On 3/24/19 1:28 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > This is because /usr/share/perl5/DebianLinux.pm was not updated
> > accordingly:
> > 
> > 	# Find kernel image name stem for this architecture
> > 	my $image_stem;
> > 	if ((uname())[4] =~ /^(?:mips|parisc|powerpc|ppc)/) {
> > 	    $image_stem = 'vmlinux';
> > 	} else {
> > 	    $image_stem = 'vmlinuz';
> > 	}
> Just as a heads-up: I'm going to switch sparc and sparc64 over to an
> uncompressed kernel as well since compressed kernels are not
> officially
> supported and actually don't work with GRUB 2.04~rc1 when I tested
> on sparc64 [1].

It might be worth adding a versioned dependency on linux-base for the
affected architectures.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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an expert.


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