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Bug#1108270: linux: uname -r contains regex control character '+'

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From Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject Bug#1108270: linux: uname -r contains regex control character '+'
Date Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:50:01 +0200
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Control: tags -1 wontfix
Control: close -1

On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 02:45:38PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> Since version 6.12.33-1 uname -r contains the regex control character
> '+'. This means any existing script passing the output of $(uname -r)
> to anything that can interpret it as a regex will start to fail.

It also contains the control character '.', multiple times.

> I can fix my autopkgtest scripts that started failing due to this, but
> it seems to me it might affect more scripts out there, so filing a bug
> so that there's something indexed and searchable.

Sure, still closing as wontfix, as we have no other characters left.

Bastian

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Bug#1108270: linux: uname -r contains regex control character '+' Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2025-06-24 15:50 +0200
  Bug#1108270: linux: uname -r contains regex control character '+' Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2025-06-24 18:50 +0200
  Processed: Re: Bug#1108270: linux: uname -r contains regex  control character '+' "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2025-06-24 18:50 +0200

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