** Description changed: /etc/os-release is a new upcoming attempt of a standard which is meant to supersede /etc/debian_version, and their counterparts in Fedora/SUSE: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html /etc/lsb_release is similar to this, but not standardized. The standard interface right now is to call lsb_release which is a Python script and thus a very high overhead compared to merely reading a file. + + [SRU justification for quantal and resubmission for precise] + The original attempt at including os-release didn't mark it as a conffile and, as such, + when upgrading to raring, which does so, this caused some migration issues. To mitigate + that, and not have to have md5sums and magic preinsts for every precise and quantal version forever, I'm SRUing to quantal and re-submitting the precise SRU with conffile + migrations, so the affected non-conffile window is only a few versions from Q.
** Description changed: /etc/os-release is a new upcoming attempt of a standard which is meant to supersede /etc/debian_version, and their counterparts in Fedora/SUSE: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html /etc/lsb_release is similar to this, but not standardized. The standard interface right now is to call lsb_release which is a Python script and thus a very high overhead compared to merely reading a file. [SRU justification for quantal and resubmission for precise] + The original attempt at including os-release didn't mark it as a conffile and, as such, when upgrading to raring, which does so, this caused some migration issues. To mitigate that, and not have to have md5sums and magic preinsts for every precise and quantal version forever, I'm SRUing to quantal and re-submitting the precise SRU with conffile migrations, so the affected non-conffile window is only a few versions from Q. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/947236 Title: Please provide /etc/os-release To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/947236/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
