Hi,
Another example of a program that is broken by the lack of version
information in /etc/os-release is zoom. Zoom refuses to screen share
on Debian testing, unstable, etc., because it relies on checking the
contents of that file to determine if minimum version requirements are
met by the
[Petter Reinholdtsen]
> I am not sure the solution in version 12.3 will solve it, but will
> give it a go.
Sadly, this is the output in sid:
# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid
Release:n/a
Codename:
[Gioele Barabucci]
> Having no `VERSION_ID` means that other software (ansible, for example) must
> carry ad-hoc code to work around this deficiency of Debian.
LinuxCNC added the workaround in
https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/commit/0b31e316615a20b601942b9b2ae3e0de0dcf9583
>
to get the build
On 29/09/22 13:09, Santiago Vila wrote:
El 31/3/22 a las 13:42, Marc Haber escribió:
/etc/os-release in testing and unstable does not set VERSION, VERSION_ID
and VERSION_CODENAME, which causes, for example, ansible to just emit
"NA" as distribution version, which forces me to special-case
[Santiago Vila]
>> I discovered it when the Github CI build started failing for LinuxCNC,
>
> I'm curious about what lsb_release does and how does it.
> Is this the first time that lsb_release fails to guess the codename?
The lsb_release value was both used by add-apt-repository from the
El 31/3/22 a las 13:42, Marc Haber escribió:
Package: base-files
Version: 12.2
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
/etc/os-release in testing and unstable does not set VERSION, VERSION_ID
and VERSION_CODENAME, which causes, for example, ansible to just emit
"NA" as distribution version, which forces me to
Package: base-files
Version: 12.2
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
/etc/os-release in testing and unstable does not set VERSION, VERSION_ID
and VERSION_CODENAME, which causes, for example, ansible to just emit
"NA" as distribution version, which forces me to special-case testing
and unstable.
I see
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