Hi Marcus,

Am 05.09.2018 um 21:37 schrieb Marcus:
> Am 02.09.2018 um 23:20 schrieb Pedro Lino:
>>> On September 2, 2018 at 9:42 PM Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> wrote:
>>
>>> It may be useful to know that the terminal command
>>> inxi -S
>>>
>>> will display the distro name. I am sure there are other commands to
>>> do so of which I am not aware.
>>
>> inxi is not included in Debian or Ubuntu. lsb_release -a works
>> But the browser is not allowed to run terminal commands for obvious
>> reasons ;)
>>  
>>> I have not yet (not looked very hard) found any command that will
>>> disclose if the distro needs RPM or DEB files
>>
>> We would have to create a table with such correspondence. But the
>> problem remains: there is no way to get information on the Distro
>> (except for Ubuntu's Firefox)
>>
>> The only solution seems to be Andrea's suggestion about adding
>> information when Linux is detected (this already happens when Android
>> is detected so the mechanism is already there)
>
> just an additional info instead of a (mandatory) choise is indeed
> worth to think twice. I'll do it on the weekend and play a bit with
> the download scripting.

When you are at it... ;-)

Did you have a chance to look at the needed changes for the updated
Release Policy?
https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127530

Regards,
   Matthias

>
> Thanks for suggesting, also to Andrea. ;-)
>
> Marcus
>
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