On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 08:53:15PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I just did a dist-upgrade of a spare box from Sarge to Etch. The contents > of /etc/debian-version was 3.1 before the dist-upgrade and remain the > same afterwards. Etch, of course, has no version number. So there is no > way to test a script that has version dependency until it is released into > stable. This is, I think, a very strange way to do business. >
So what? Etch has not been released? Perhaps it would be better if the file were named debian_release. Regardless, the point is to be able to differentiate among *stable* releases. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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