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? Quite frankly, if you are actively opposing its use I would like to suggest release managers to get involved and help fix this ambiguous situation for the next release. Friendly, Javier
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