Package: base-files
Version: 10.3+deb10u1
Severity: normal
File: /etc/issue
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
When upgrading to Debian Buster, I noticed that Debian had updated
/etc/issue to include the version number ("Debian GNU/Linux 10").
There is no reason for this since that data is already included in
/etc/os-release.
$ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="10"
VERSION="10 (buster)"
VERSION_CODENAME=buster
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/";
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support";
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/";
Here is a version of /etc/issue which will show the "PRETTY_NAME":
\S \n \l
Please use that instead of hardcoding it to a specific release. That
way, those of us who like to customize our /etc/issue won't get
conflict errors next time we upgrade.
Thank you.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages base-files depends on:
ii gawk [awk] 1:4.1.4+dfsg-1
ii mawk [awk] 1.3.3-17+b3
base-files recommends no packages.
base-files suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/issue changed:
\S (\r)
Welcome to \n.\O \l@\b \t
-- no debconf information
--- issue.dpkg-dist 2019-08-30 05:31:26.000000000 -0700
+++ issue 2019-09-15 05:47:19.463694363 -0700
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-Debian GNU/Linux 10 \n \l
+\S \n \l
