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From: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools/xl: Add 'xen_version' to `xl info`
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 10:49:24 -0700
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On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:21:24AM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> On 11/07/13 10:10, Andrew Cooper wrote:

[...]

> >
> >Even with this however, my original point still stands.  Getting the
> >version number is awkward.
> 
> Is there actually a reason to print it separately at all?  Why not
> replace the individual lines with the unified line?

Please don't do that. I'm sure that there are scripts out there that
stitch together the parts into a version string. They'll break if we
remove the parts.

--msw