Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: tags -1 wontfix
Control: merge 1020893 -1
On 17/06/23 13:54, Harshula wrote:
The old lsb_release.py script contains the function
guess_release_from_apt(). Can you please add similar functionality to
lsb-release to fix the regression?
Dear Harshula,
I understand your request and I fully support having better OS
information in unstable and testing (see my request to base-files in bug
#1021663 [1]).
However, fixing the deficiencies of Debian's `/etc/os-release` is not
the job of this minimalist implementation of `lsb_release`.
By the way, LSB is no longer an active project and all distributions,
including Debian, stopped supporting LSB in 2015 [2]. Scripts and
infrastructure relying on `lsb_release` should be ported to modern (and
simpler) cross-distro facilities like `/etc/os-release`.
Regards,
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/1021663
[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/658809/
--
Gioele Barabucci
