Bug#494158: [grub2] update-grub: uses wrong ordering algorithm (sorts 1.2.3-foo before 1.2.3.1-foo)

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Samstag, den 09.08.2008, 19:50 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan:
> 
> I'm not very concerned with distinguishing priorities other than what goes
> before and after the empty string.  I'd rather just put all those known
> suffixes below the empty string and not care about their relative weights,
> for the sake of simplicity.
> 
> So if there are no objections, I'd like to check in the patch I sent (with
> the greedy 'g' as you suggest) and upload that.

For lenny I'd say that too.
It's for almost everyone probable be better with that dpkg way now.

It's just not 100% perfect, but we can discuss this for post lenny is if
we should make it more perfect.

I still don't understand it anyway why people have many different
kernels in /boot/
(e.g. the guy who reported the problem with the big grub.cfg)