Hi,
The following integration test in the ansible package is an example that breaks
when VERSION gets removed from /etc/os-release in the release cycle:
(ansible_distribution == 'Debian' and ansible_distribution_version is
version('8', '>=')
Link to the upstream source:
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/5ab5f2348798dc3b9325573d1427b76ca8295386/test/integration/targets/service_facts/tasks/main.yml#L29
In practice this means that autopkgtests for the ansible package start failing
after a release when the VERSION variable gets removed.
I believe /etc/os-release should be set VERSION unconditionally. In the absense
of those fields I would assume its an ancient release where /etc/os-release was
not shipped yet.
While it's theoretically possible to patch around it, the whole point of
/etc/os-release is to have such machine-readable information. As there are many
such conditionals in the upstream integration tests, and the workaround involves
quite a bit of boilerplate, in practice this just means that they get removed by
me from the autopkgtests.
Regards,
Lee
- Bug#1008735: should /etc/os-release contain VERSION variable... Lee Garrett
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