Bug#916204: Improve /etc/lsb-release (or drop it)
[Mike Gabriel]
> we inventory Debian Edu hardware specifics of our customers with the
> tool OCS Inventory. Other than hardware inventorying, the tool also
> looks at /etc/lsb-release and shows the value of the
> DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION field in host lists. If /etc/lsb-release is
> missing, the file /etc/os-release is used.
I would recommend to use the output from "lsb_release -a" instead of
failing to replicate the logic used by lsb_release to figure out the
current status. On a Debian Edu machine it returns this:
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: DebianEdu/Skolelinux
Release: 9.6
Codename: stretch
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
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