Subject: bug#39940: The variable operating-system-release

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2021 05:37:01 +0200

> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2021 03:21:45 +0000
> 
> >> Would its value be of any use in report-emacs-bug?
> >
> > We already have a similar facility for report-emacs-bug, don't we?
> > AFAIR, it doesn't rely on this variable.
> 
> At least on GNU/Linux, report-emacs-bug does not currently report the
> kernel version.  I was wondering whether that would be useful
> information to include.  Does report-emacs-bug already include the
> information provided by operating-system-release on other platforms?

It depends on what you mean by "kernel version".  What we have there
can be seen in report-emacs-bug--os-description.