From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Please remove getkversion
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 09:35:02 +1100
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To: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
In-Reply-To: message from Steinar H. Gunderson on Thursday January 4
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On Thursday January 4, sgunderson@bigfoot.com wrote:
> getkversion fails when building against newer kernel headers, since
> UTS_RELEASE is no longer exported to userspace (nor is there any adequate
> replacement that I know of). This has already hit Ubuntu (making nfs-utils
> not build anymore), so they've simply stopped building it -- we're doing so
> in Debian as well, as we'll probably hit the same problems, and getkversion
> isn't really in use anyhow.
> 
> Could we simply remove the tool from upstream git? Is there any known use
> for it?
> 

Sounds fair.  It is removed.

NeilBrown

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