Hi Santiago,
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 08:28:39PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> The question: I've heard somewhere that the stable release team had
> the intention of having /etc/issue showing not only the version number
> but also the exact point release which is installed, during lenny
> future lifetime as stable.
>
> I assume this will be implemented by uploading .lenny.x-suffixed
> versions of base-files to stable-proposed-updates several days before
> each point release happens. Only /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net would
> be changed in these base-files stable updates.
>
> Therefore it seems the logical thing to do is for lenny release 0
> to have an /etc/issue (and issue.net) which reads "5.0r0"
>
> Please confirm that this is correct.
I don't think so. Changing /etc/issue{,.net} with every point release will
be a major annoyance for every person who customizes those files. I think
that if we want a programmatical way to access this information, this should
be solved by a separate package with a file not in /etc, probably with
LSB compliance in mind.
Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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