Re: What to do about /etc/debian_version

2001-01-06 Thread Christopher Yeoh
Santiago Vila writes: > > This information could instead be stored in /etc/lsb-release. One of > > the reasons for the creation of this file was to standardise across > > the distributions the name and format of the file which contains this > > type of information. > > Interesting. Is that file in

Re: What to do about /etc/debian_version

2001-01-05 Thread Christopher Yeoh
Santiago Vila writes: > something other than "2.2" or "testing/unstable" could potentially > break any script or program which expects /etc/debian_version to be > either "2.2" or "testing/unstable" (since this is what base-files provides). > In this case not only there is no benefit from changing