Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> added the comment:

Christian, is it necessary to start with threats?

> Python could also follow the lead of other software like D-Bus
> and make the presence of os-release mandatory on Linux.
> Any Linux platform without it would be considered broken.
> I don't think it is necessary to impose such restriction on vendors.

Python *does* follow this lead with the distro module. And no, I don't see yet 
any argument why you need a second API for that.

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