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* [PATCH] ver_linux: Reference coreutils instead of sh-utils.
@ 2025-08-16  2:17 Collin Funk
  2025-09-15  1:38 ` Collin Funk
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Collin Funk @ 2025-08-16  2:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jonathan Corbet; +Cc: linux-kernel, Collin Funk

The Fileutils, Shellutils, and Textutils packages were combined to
create GNU Coreutils which had its first major release in 2003 [1]. It
is unlikely that someone is using Shellutils today, and likely that many
do not remember what the Shellutils package is.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/shellutils/

Signed-off-by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
---
 scripts/ver_linux | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/ver_linux b/scripts/ver_linux
index d6f2362d3792..222e01eb9697 100755
--- a/scripts/ver_linux
+++ b/scripts/ver_linux
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ BEGIN {
 	printversion("Net-tools", version("ifconfig --version"))
 	printversion("Kbd", version("loadkeys -V"))
 	printversion("Console-tools", version("loadkeys -V"))
-	printversion("Sh-utils", version("expr --v"))
+	printversion("Coreutils", version("expr --v"))
 	printversion("Udev", version("udevadm --version"))
 	printversion("Wireless-tools", version("iwconfig --version"))
 
-- 
2.50.1


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