Bug#711174: base-files: changes in 7.1wheezy1 break lsb-release on stable

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

El 05/06/13 12:44, Didier Raboud escribió:
> Control: tags -1 +pending
>
> Hi Marc, hi Santiago,
>
> Le mercredi, 5 juin 2013 11.00:06, Santiago Vila a écrit :
> > reassign 711174 lsb-release
> > thanks
> >
> > On Wed, 5 Jun 2013, Marc Fournier wrote:
> > > Upgrading from 7.1 to 7.1wheezy1 (from wheezy-proposed-updates) breaks
> > > the codename returned by lsb_release. "n/a" is returned instead of
> > > "wheezy".
> > >
> > > This is a nuisance because everything depending on lsb to identify the
> > > system release by codename instead of version number is also broken.
>
> Good catch, thanks!
>
> > This is not a bug in base-files but a bug in lsb-release, the changes
> > in base-files are the result of the stable release managers decision
> > that Debian wheezy will be just "Debian 7".
>
> That's news for me, but I guess lsb_release is one of the few things we should
> have tested more thouroughly with base-files "as it would be in stable". Oh
> well.

We really didn't know about this until recently, so it's not your fault.

Just make sure that the new lsb-release for wheezy works well with the 
base-files currently in proposed-updates. From now on (for example, in 
Debian 7.2 point release, whenever that will be), only 
/etc/debian_version will change in base-files (as we did in squeeze).

Thanks.