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Re: Wheezy Codename with lsb_release



On 2011-02-10 00:00 +0100, Peter Beck wrote:

> I am running testing on my laptop (sources.list has testing everywhere).
> Since Squeeze is stable, shouldn't be the codename shown with
> lsb_release labelled with Wheezy ?

Yes.

> On my system it still shows Squeeze. I'm just wondering if this is
> normal or just on my system ? 

It's normal.  AFAIK lsb_release parses /etc/debian_version, and it knows
that 6.0 is Squeeze.  As soon as base-files 6.1 migrates to testing,
/etc/debian_version will say "wheezy/sid", and then "lsb_release -c"
should give correct information.

Sven


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