Bug#1108270: linux: uname -r contains regex control character '+'
Control: tags -1 wontfix
Control: close -1
On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 02:45:38PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> Since version 6.12.33-1 uname -r contains the regex control character
> '+'. This means any existing script passing the output of $(uname -r)
> to anything that can interpret it as a regex will start to fail.
It also contains the control character '.', multiple times.
> I can fix my autopkgtest scripts that started failing due to this, but
> it seems to me it might affect more scripts out there, so filing a bug
> so that there's something indexed and searchable.
Sure, still closing as wontfix, as we have no other characters left.
Bastian
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