Santiago Vila writes: > something other than "2.2" or "testing/unstable" could potentially > break any script or program which expects /etc/debian_version to be > either "2.2" or "testing/unstable" (since this is what base-files provides). > In this case not only there is no benefit from changing the file but > it could be even harmful. > > So: Is there a *technical* reason to change /etc/debian_version other > than it being just "nicer"?
This information could instead be stored in /etc/lsb-release. One of the reasons for the creation of this file was to standardise across the distributions the name and format of the file which contains this type of information. Chris. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Support Open Source Ice-Cream