Bug#491301: kernel menu entries are misordered

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 01:06:21AM +0200, Guido Trotter wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 06:18:45PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > 'm' is smaller than 'r'.  This change was done intentionaly to mimic the
> > criteria used in GRUB Legacy's version of update-grub.
> 
> But that's the point... m is smaller than r, so r is a *higher version* than m,
> which means it should be preferred, shouldn't... Even more true for 01, 02,
> etc... If I update some kernel configuration (which version was 00) and create a
> 01 or 02 I'd like those to be booted first, don't I? Or should I give it a lower
> version to make sure it's put first?

Sorry, you're right.  It seems to differ in behaviour from the GRUB Legacy
version, even if the code is the same.  I wonder how could have this
happened..

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