Felix Miata:
Will someone please explain (or point to, since it's not in release notes), why: 1: /etc/os-release (in Jessie at least) does not include the point release version as represented by /etc/debian_version
Andrew M.A. Cater:
/etc/os-release just contains major version - the absolute need for minor version is small.
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard:
You are going to have to explain that to its manual page, which gives VERSION_ID=11.04 as an example of what can be in the file.
Pascal Hambourg:
This is obviously not a Debian version. Rather looks like Ubuntu.
That is irrelevant. M. Miata asked for a reason. M. Cater responded. Either M. Cater is responding to explain why or xe is not explainining but merely repeating what M. Miata already knows and wants to know the reason for. As an explanation why, it is clearly wrong, from simply reading the user manual. What the version number in the manual might be is simply irrelevant.