Re: Please allow base-files 5 in lenny
* Santiago Vila [Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:53:49 +0100]:
> As debian-installer people is already doing Release Candidates, I
> think it's time those RCs carry 5.0 as the version number:
> base-files (5) unstable; urgency=low
> * Changed issue, issue.net and debian_version to read "5.0".
> * Changed FAQ so that users of lenny as stable will know what happens
> when they upgrade to the new testing.
> -- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:04:04 +0100
Unblocked.
> BTW: Should I worry about Bug#508772? This is the very first time in
> 10 years that someone seems unconvenienced by seeing a version number
> like 5.0 in unstable for a few weeks. Are there really packages which
> break because of this? If not, I feel that the BTS is being abused.
I talked with Rene, and we (sort of) agreed you should not worry about
this for Lenny. It is unfortunate that the way base-files is handled
currently breaks his build system, but that it is too late to do anything
about it.
However, there's been for a long time talk in the release team about how
to best handle the "version files" we ship, to accomodate to the various
uses people give to it.
We are going to introduce a package that ships a "lsb_release" file, and
we're going to handle it via the proposed-<suite> suites. Hopefully
lsb-release (the program) will move to using that file, but I'm know
thinking it could be reasonable to move debian_version and issue{,.net}
to this package, what do you think?
Cheers,
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