Package: base-files Version: 13.8 Severity: normal User: [email protected] Usertags: origin-kali
Dear Santiago, in Debian derivatives (such as Kali Linux), we need to fork base-files and adjust a few things, in particular the name of the distribution, which is hardcoded to "Debian" in a number of files. It would be a bit easier for us if this was configurable, by setting a variable in debian/rules. Please find attached a patch to this effect. As you can see the patch is trivial, and maybe a bit too dumb. Another (smarter?) approach would be to change the content of the variable OSNAME to be "Debian GNU/Linux" (instead of just "GNU/Linux"), and then adjust the templates to just use "#OSNAME#" in place of "Debian #OSNAME#". There's no urgency, we've had a fork of base-files in Kali since the beginning, and it's straightforward to maintain. But at the same time, it seems to me that this change is a nice improvement at no cost, it doesn't really add any complexity to the base-files package. Thanks for your consideration, Best, Arnaud
Add-VENDOR-variable-set-to-Debian.patch
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