APT is maintained by 2 people, encouraging a discussion on every bug report that will likely get ignored anyway would be madness. I think closing the bug as Opinion is a much better choice than ignoring it for 10 years or so like most other bugs are.
* Various tools would be broken by such a change * Having variables in the files looks bad * Having variables in the files makes it harder to debug * The variable may be misleading, as your distribution may not override os-release files * It does not work on Debian, as testing/unstable have the same os-release file * Debian's lsb_release relies on sources.list to figure out which release you are running on You also can't upgrade with this: If we seed the variable from os- release, we seed it from os-release, and that comes from a package in that repository - the repository defines the versions installed, not the versions installed the repository. Now you could say "let's temporarily override that in the code" but ugh this is not really all that elegant and it gives different tools different views of things at runtime. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1835645 Title: apt sources should be able to understand release variables To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1835645/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
