Package: procps
Version: 1:3.2.7-2
Severity: normal

the fact that uptime rolls over to 0 days of uptime at 497 days leads to
distorted conclusions in Linux stability analysis.  here is one article
that actually considers this limitation properly, but there are many
others that do not.

http://www.theregister.com/2004/10/22/security_report_windows_vs_linux.pdf

uptime should be improved to support reporting uptimes of at least 10
years, preferably 20.

thank you for your consideration.

mike

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5                  5.5-3       Shared libraries for terminal hand

Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii  psmisc                        22.3-1     Utilities that use the proc filesy

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