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Re: Bug#443459: release-notes: With beginning of Lenny /etc/debian_version will be touched with every point release



Hi Nicolas,

go ahead. Looks good to me.

On Sun Aug 23, 2009 at 00:01:55 +0200, Nicolas François wrote:
> Hello Martin,
> 
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 04:12:19PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> > 
> > With the release of Lenny /etc/debian_version will be touched with every
> > point release, to reflect the current revision number of the debian
> > release (read as in):
> > 
> > now:	    then:
> > 4.1	    4.1r0
> > 
> > That should be documented in the release-notes, as it might brake
> > external software.
> 
> Could you review this patch for the release notes.
> 
> I plan to document this in the section "2.2. System improvements"
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#system-changes
> 
> Also, I'm not sure about the above versions. I used 5.0 and 5.0.1 in the
> patch.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> -- 
> Nekral

> Index: en/whats-new.dbk
> ===================================================================
> --- en/whats-new.dbk	(révision 6882)
> +++ en/whats-new.dbk	(copie de travail)
> @@ -492,6 +500,18 @@
>  applications that still have difficulties in handling UTF-8.
>  </para>
>  </listitem>
> +<listitem>
> +  <indexterm><primary>Identification of the release's revision</primary></indexterm>
> +  <para>
> +    Starting from &releasename;, <filename>/etc/debian_version</filename>
> +    will indicate the revision number of the debian release (5.0, then
> +    5.0.1, etc.)
> +  </para>
> +  <para>
> +    This also means that you should not expect this file to be constant
> +    throught the release lifetime.
> +  </para>
> +</listitem>
>  </varlistentry>
>  </variablelist>
>  <para>


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