Bug#301266: Always advertises "Debian GNU/Linux"
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 05:26:01PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 05:51:50PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> >
> > My apologise, but this patch produces FTBFS due to broken command-line options
> > in gcc. I'm working on a fix and will send it RSN.
>
> I'm not sure it's worth it. I remember a bug against Apache 1.3 saying
> that we shouldn't include the "Debian GNU/Linux" string as that said we
> had component "GNU" with version "Linux". See sections 3.8 and 14.38
> of HTTP/1.1.
>From my interpretation, "token [/ product-version]" doesn't exclude the
possibility of "token" containing a slash. =)
But in case it does, I find it quite disgusting that a standard made in 1999
didn't support GNU/Linux as an operating system name.
> Why don't we just put "(Debian)" in instead?
There's a reason because hardcoding "Linux" is wrong: Debian supports (or at
least intends to support) other kernels. I can't see a reason why hardcoding
"GNU" would be wrong, though. So in this case maybe you want to make it
"Debian/GNU" as it used to be in 1.x?
But really I think it should mention the kernel too. This way scanner tools
or services like netcraft can determine how many servers with each Debian
kernel are used around.
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