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coreutils package

  1. Bug #470550
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 470550

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C de-Avillez (hggdh2) wrote :

Upstream coreutils will not ack the patch; this has been discussed over and over upstream, and their position is this is a service that should be provided by the kernel (via sysinfo() or uname(), probably).

As such we either carry this delta, or close this bug WONTFIX.