Bug#944351: Providing minor version somewhere in /etc/os-release in buster
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On Fri, 2019-11-08 at 13:17 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> I received this bug from one of the ansible upstream authors:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=931197
>
> asking to include information about minor version somewhere in
> /etc/os-release.
>
> I first said "not yet" because we were very close to the release of
> buster and the behaviour of /etc/debian_version and /etc/os-release
> was already "documented" or "announced" in base-files changelog, as
> usual. My plan was to consider that for bullseye.
>
> However, there is a glitch in lsb-release:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=939733
>
> We could revert the change in lsb-release so that it looks at
> /etc/debian_version again, but we could also do the change
> in base-files now and fix this glitch in the most standard way.
>
> So: Would you approve that base-files 10.3+deb10u2 for Debian 10.2
> has VERSION_ID="10.2" in /etc/os-release (and 10.x from now on)
> instead of "10"?
To confirm, is the proposal to end up with:
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="10.2"
VERSION="10 (buster)"
?
Regards,
Adam
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