Dimitri John Ledkov added the comment: Why not change them to parse os-release files as defined by
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html A lot of things use these functions to check what one is running on, despite the problems, and do different things at install time. This deprecation and eventual removal, will result in a pypi module created with such functionality anyway, that everyone will try to pull in.... or falling that copying in. Here in https://clearlinux.org team we have patches to switch these to parse /etc/os-release;/usr/lib/os-release files instead. Would you be open to deprecate parsing any other files but os-release going forward? As that is standard across all linux distributions for quite some time now. Regards, Dimitri. Debian Developer, Ubuntu Core Developer, Clear Linux* Project Developer. ---------- nosy: +xnox _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1322> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
