On dimanche 10 mai 2020 15:47:48 CEST Gerold Jens Wucherpfennig wrote: > Am 08.05.20 um 21:36 schrieb Jonathon Fernyhough: > > On 08/05/2020 19:57, Gerold Jens Wucherpfennig wrote: > >> Please add 'VERSION', > >> 'VERSION_ID' and 'VERSION_CODENAME'. > >> > >> The file is in the package "core/filesystem" > > > > What's the rationale for this? > > > > Once the distro is installed those tags have very little meaning to a > > rolling release. > > The data is already in /etc/lsb-release. > > $ cat /etc/lsb-release > DISTRIB_ID=ManjaroLinux > DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.0 > DISTRIB_CODENAME=Lysia > DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Manjaro Linux" > > So why is this information in > /etc/lsb-release? > > The developers of kinfocenter > do not want to include this obsolete data > and are asking for this data > to be included, it has to be stored > in /usr/lib/os-release. > > They do not want to change > kinfocenter to include old LSB data. > > You say that version tags have very > little meaning in a rolling release > distribution like Manjaro. > > What do other people think about this?
You can ask on the packagers mailing list to see how they do (kde- distro.packagers@ or distributions@k.o). For openSUSE Tumbleweed (the rolling release), we have no problem with os- release. % cat /usr/lib/os-release NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed" # VERSION="20200507" ID="opensuse-tumbleweed" ID_LIKE="opensuse suse" VERSION_ID="20200507" PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed" ANSI_COLOR="0;32" CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:tumbleweed:20200507" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"; HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/"; LOGO="distributor-logo"
