Package: linux-base Version: 4.6 Severity: normal Tags: patch Using argv: $ linux-version sort 5.8.0-50-generic 5.8.0-50-generic-64k 5.8.0-50-generic 5.8.0-50-generic-64k
Using stdin: $ cat versions.txt 5.8.0-50-generic 5.8.0-50-generic-64k $ cat versions.txt | linux-version sort 5.8.0-50-generic-64k 5.8.0-50-generic It seems the trailing "\n" is unexpectedly being used in the comparison. Now, perl and I have never really gotten along, but this patch seems to work: --- /usr/bin/linux-version.orig 2020-06-25 17:23:24.000000000 +0000 +++ /usr/bin/linux-version 2021-04-30 20:39:13.708560573 +0000 @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ @versions = map({[$_, "\n"]} @_); } else { while (<STDIN>) { - /^([^ ]*)(.*\n?)$/ or die; + /^([^ \n]*)(.*\n?)$/ or die; push @versions, [$1, $2]; } } -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.0 APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages linux-base depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.76 linux-base recommends no packages. linux-base suggests no packages. -- debconf information: * linux-base/removing-running-kernel: true linux-base/removing-title: