On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 08:12:46PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > It purports to be information that is available to script writers > when, if fact, it is not information. It does not, in and of itself, > cause a problem. It just misleads script writers into believing that > there is a really simple way to determine the Debian version, when in > fact there is not. At least not by reading this file. It would not be > a bug if it were totally undocumented and given another name so that > script writers who notice it would not assume falsely that it is > useful. > I disagree. This file is *guaranteed* to have different contents for every stable release. Using that file I instantly tell the difference between a Potato, Woody and Sarge install. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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