This issue/point raised by Josh is of interest to me. For our upcoming Jessie based release we have also adjusted /etc/dpkg/origins/default to point at our own file. We are yet to see any negative consequences but this does raise my concern level. Anyone have any further input? Regards, Jeremy On 06/05/15 07:31, Powers, Joshua wrote: >> The page is missing a dpkg vendor field. It is important that >> > Debian derivatives set this properly on installed systems and >> > mention the value of the field in the derivatives census. > We originally modified /etc/dpkg/origins/default to point at our own > file that stated: "Vendor = hlinux" In doing so we discovered that > this modified lsb_release and caused some applications to fail to > install as they were unable to determine the underlying distribution. > The prime example is OpenStack's diskimage-builder was expecting > either Debian or Ubuntu and failed with other values. Is there a > better method? Or should we instead be working with the software > vendors to not hard code specific actions based off this value? >
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