El 02/11/12 22:15, Luca Capello escribió:
If I read the os-release manpage correctly, Jeremy is right and VERSION
is the place where 'wheezy' should be:
<http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html>
The same manpage says this:
Note that operating system vendors may choose not to provide version
information, for example to accommodate for rolling releases. In this
case VERSION and VERSION_ID may be unset.
And also:
Applications should not rely on these fields to be set.
Because of the above, I think this can't never be "a bug in base-files
which makes others packages to fail".
Instead, those packages who fail should be fixed. Introducing a VERSION
when there is only a codename would make all those bugs to be hidden
and unfixed.
Please also note that the current behavior is inconsistent WRT
/etc/debian_version, which has either the version number when on stable
or the codename when (in the form "$NEXT_STABLE/sid").
Do you suggest that /etc/debian_version is removed in testing?
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