Improving the Identication of Linux Distributions when Dumping

[Florian Weimer]

* Andrew John Hughes:

> I would actually like to know this too.  In what situations is
> knowing the distro helpful?

For distro-specific builds, the package version number would give you
the information (e.g., recent Debian builds have "~squeeze" or
"~lenny" in their version numbers), and it is included in crash dumps.

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