Re: Recursive implicit rule chain sometimes works

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 2014-11-19 at 07:11 -0800, David Boyce wrote:
> I believe the reason many Linux distributions were so slow to move
> from 3.81 to 3.82 is that 3.82 introduced an incompatibility which
> affected the ability to build (among other things) Linux kernels
> predating 3.82.

Not to reopen old wounds (lord knows we don't need more of that in the
F/OSS community these days), but the issue in the Linux kernel makefiles
was small (a few makefiles needed trivial changes) and was fixed back in
Linux version 2.6.34... it's been a long time since any Debian/Ubuntu
release was based on such an old kernel.

But you could be right: I don't know the reasons why they decided not to
upgrade.  I assume Ubuntu just uses what Debian uses.  Some bugs have
been forwarded from the Debian BTS but if any of them were RC-level bugs
it wasn't made clear to me.