On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 at 17:32, Christoph Berg <m...@debian.org> wrote: > > Re: Luca Boccassi > > The TL;DR is a request to override the base-files maintainer, and > > enable moving os-release into a new, independent and separate source > > package, so that these bugs may finally be fixed, and Debian's os- > > release may finally be made compliant with the specification. > > If we are fixing that, we should also fix /etc/debian_version in the > same way. I've always been wondering why we don't put better content > into these files. > > (Though I'm not sure the ruling should include the "move to new source > package" part. It could also be fixed inside base-files.)
I left that out intentionally, as that is by definition a Debian-specific file and the main goal here is fixing the distro-agnostic metadata issues, and also changing that might affect backward compatibility of existing consumers (not an issue in os-release, as the relevant metadata is either absent or the wrong one is very new). However, I personally do not have a strong opinion one way or the other, and I am happy to do extra work if required.
