Re: debian version ID
On Tue 09 Aug 2016 at 13:27:34 (-0700), Seeker wrote:
> On 8/9/2016 4:34 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> >Le 09/08/2016 à 10:44, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard a écrit :
> >>Andrew M.A. Cater:
> >>>/etc/os-release just contains major version
> >>
> >>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.
> >
> >This is obviously not a Debian version. Rather looks like Ubuntu.
> >
> >>You're going to have to explain it to the Ubuntu people, as well;
> >>because they follow what the manual says.
> >
> >Ubuntu 11.04 is a version based on year+month of release rather
> >than a major+minor version. Ubuntu 11.04 is as different from
> >11.10 as 11.10 is different from 12.04.
> >
> That was my first thought too, but looking up base-files for one of
> the LTS releases on packages.ubuntu.com and reading
> the change log, looks like to do update the os-release with xx.xx.1,
> xx.xx.2, etc...
Where was that, then? (To save us all having to search for it.)
When you say "update the os-release with xx.xx.1", do you
mean the VERSION_ID line? This line is optional anyway,
is it not?
Cheers,
David.
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