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regarding base-files: Please make it easier to override the vendor name
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Package: base-files
Version: 13.8
Severity: normal
User: [email protected]
Usertags: origin-kali
Dear Santiago,
in Debian derivatives (such as Kali Linux), we need to fork base-files
and adjust a few things, in particular the name of the distribution,
which is hardcoded to "Debian" in a number of files.
It would be a bit easier for us if this was configurable, by setting a
variable in debian/rules.
Please find attached a patch to this effect.
As you can see the patch is trivial, and maybe a bit too dumb.
Another (smarter?) approach would be to change the content of the
variable OSNAME to be "Debian GNU/Linux" (instead of just "GNU/Linux"),
and then adjust the templates to just use "#OSNAME#" in place of
"Debian #OSNAME#".
There's no urgency, we've had a fork of base-files in Kali since the
beginning, and it's straightforward to maintain. But at the same time,
it seems to me that this change is a nice improvement at no cost, it
doesn't really add any complexity to the base-files package.
Thanks for your consideration,
Best,
Arnaud
Add-VENDOR-variable-set-to-Debian.patch
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Source: base-files
Source-Version: 14.2
Done: Santiago Vila <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
base-files, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Santiago Vila <[email protected]> (supplier of updated base-files package)
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Date: Sun, 31 May 2026 11:20:00 +0200
Source: base-files
Architecture: source
Version: 14.2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Santiago Vila <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Santiago Vila <[email protected]>
Closes: 1111436
Changes:
base-files (14.2) unstable; urgency=medium
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* Make it easier for derivatives to change the name of the system.
Thanks to Arnaud Rebillout. Closes: #1111436.
* Fix copyright-refers-to-symlink-license lintian warning.
* Fix missing-field-in-dep5-copyright lintian warning.
* Drop some unused lintian overrides.
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