Hello. I have a custom APT repo (for squeeze/wheezy/jessie) for my software
and Readme page for it with install instructions.

It contains the following line:

echo "deb http://SOMEURL/debian/current $(lsb_release -sc) main"|sudo tee
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/SOMEREPO.list

recently I found this line is wrong:

1) lsb_release is not available in some debian installs (minimal install?
rasberry-pi ? )
2) if user uses FISH as login shell , this expression "$(lsb_release -sc)"
won't work.
3) probably some users would want to use "stable" instead of "wheezy" etc.

What is the recommended way to write such install instructions?

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