ACK: [SRU Utopic] LP#1407755: include full version information in kernel build info

[Brad Figg]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 08:13:30AM -0600, Chris J Arges wrote:
> Andy mentioned this will also be applied to master-next as well but
> really only important when vivid gets backported to trusty.
> The regex change makes sense.
> 
> Acked-by: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges at canonical.com>
> 
> On 01/06/2015 05:18 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> > We applied some fixes from Dann Frazier to allow abi shadowing in PPAs,
> > however this also inadvertantly cleaned up the uploadnum to be just the
> > upload number itself, whereas it is intended to be "the reset of the
> > version number".  This number is only used for identification in the
> > kernel build number as reported by uname -v, and there it is appropriate
> > for the version to be identified in full.  Following this email a patch
> > for utopic/master-next.
> > 
> > Proposing for SRU to utopic.
> > 
> > NOTE: this only actually is visible in builds with augmented version,
> > such as those in the lts-utopic in trusty.  Fixes a lack of complete
> > version noted there by Brad Figg in testing.
> > 
> > -apw
> > 
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This actually addresses an issue that we are having today with lts-utopic.

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