On Fri, 1 Jul 2016, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Because lsb-release is not installed on all system, but base-files is. > My intention for getting VERSION_CODENAME defined for jessie is to > develop a proper fix for https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/34423
Let's see: On a Debian 8 (jessie) system where lsb-release is not installed, [...] So why don't you just declare lsb-release required for that particular feature to work? If you consider this a bug at all, your intended fix (rely on the /etc/os-release file) would only half-fix it, because it would still be wrong in testing and unstable. OTOH, if you document that lsb_release is required for this feature to work, then the bug will be fixed in stable, testing and unstable at the same time, without corner cases. BTW: In general, relying on the codename is a bad idea and it's something I would prefer not to encourage. We should rely on actual features being present or absent, not on the system being at a particular version. Thanks.
