Bug#944351: Providing minor version somewhere in /etc/os-release in buster
On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 08:15:36PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 07:10:08PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 01:17:20PM +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.
> > >
> > What I'm missing from that bug is the actual use case. The minor
> > version seems to me to be pretty meaningless. What problem does
> > including it actually fix?
>
> I would call it marginally useful, but not meaningless.
>
Fair.
> If it was really meaningless, we would not be providing such info in
> /etc/debian_version to begin with.
>
> In this case we would be allowing ansible maintainers for a cleaner
> implementation of something which they have already decided to
> implement because some users consider it useful.
>
> As far as we don't break any standard, does a feature need to be
> useful for everybody to be implemented, or does it suffice that some
> people consider it useful? (for whatever reason).
>
I think if we're talking about changing things in stable the bar has to
be higher than "someone asked for it", especially when it may break
things for somebody else (which this very much can).
Cheers,
Julien
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