On Thu, 31 May 2007, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:06:28PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > That would "bless" the abuse of /etc/debian_version. IMHO, it would be > > good for Debian if we continue to discourage its use. > > LSB compliance (which is a release goal) obliges us to provide proper > versioning information for releases. That means we have to have a (standard) > way for other software to determine which version of our distribution > they are running in. > > The lsb_release scripts relies on /etc/debian_version. It also uses of > /etc/apt/sources.list is a -bad- hack to work around the testing/unstable > problem (and introduces some bugs). > > As you are the maintainer for base-files, and it provides > /etc/debian_version, what do you suggest we do for LSB compliance?
I suggest we forget about LSB compliance of testing and unstable, since they are not really "releases".
