On Fri, 2020-09-04 at 17:37 +0200, Michal Prívozník wrote: > On 9/4/20 5:12 PM, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > I don't think it's done on purpose: it's probably just a bug in the > > Debian packaging that got propagated to Ubuntu. > > > > Even assuming that's the case, it will take some time for it to be > > addressed in sid, and the first Ubuntu LTS that will carry the > > resulting fix is almost two years out... So I think we have to just > > support both ws_version.h and config.h for a while. > > Ah, so on one hand we have progressive distro that doesn't install > internal header files, on the other we have LTS distros where changing > something may take years to take effect. In that case our only option is > to implement both ways. Or motivate LTS distros to implement the change > sooner ;-) > > Since you wrote the original patch, do you want to write this one too? > Or do you want me to do it? I would like to see this addressed, but since there is additional work involved it's realistically going to be a while before I can get back to it. So, if you have any interest in writing a better patch yourself and time to actually do it, please by all means go ahead! -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
