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