[Joe Orton] > I'd have done exactly as you did. But the rest of the world does not > exist under the specific constraints which Debian does; what's right > for Debian is not necessarily right for upstream.
Fair enough. I accept that Linux is in an unusual situation here, with the loose coupling between libc and kernel, such that you can compile on a new kernel yet run the binary on an old kernel. I don't mind maintaining this as a Debian-specific patch, if that's what you think is appropriate. I only submitted it because I thought it was a genuine improvement others would want as well. Also, I apologise if I came off sounding as though nobody except Debian cares about the user experience - I was frustrated because I thought I'd been misunderstood about why this patch matters to us. Peter
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