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Re: /etc/debian_version for Etch



On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 08:53:15PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
>  
> I just did a dist-upgrade of a spare box from Sarge to Etch. The contents
> of /etc/debian-version was 3.1 before the dist-upgrade and remain the
> same afterwards. Etch, of course, has no version number. So there is no
> way to test a script that has version dependency until it is released into
> stable. This is, I think, a very strange way to do business. 
> 

So what?  Etch has not been released?  Perhaps it would be better if the
file were named debian_release.  Regardless, the point is to be able to
differentiate among *stable* releases.

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sanchez
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