Re: Bug#559761: ITP: release -- provides information about the current releases
[Benjamin Drung]
> Yes, the name is a bit to generic. Any other suggestions for the name?
> On the mailing list I found 'release-info'. On my list are now:
>
> * release-info
> * distro-release-info
> * distro-releases
I'd go with 'os-release'. Mostly because I hate the word 'distro'.
Unix tradition is to have a bit of OS release info in one flag of
'uname' or another, but of course on Linux, where the kernel and the
userland are fairly decoupled, this makes less sense.
(Also, one might think /usr/share/misc/config.guess could say whether
we're on debian or ubuntu ... but it doesn't.)
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