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Re: debian version ID





On 8/9/2016 4:49 PM, David Wright wrote:
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.


http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/b/base-files/base-files_7.2ubuntu5.5/changelog

"base-files (7.2ubuntu5.5) trusty; urgency=medium

  * /etc/issue, /etc/issue.net, /etc/lsb-release, /etc/os-release: Bump
    version number to 14.04.5 in preparation for the point release.

 -- Adam Conrad <adconrad@ubuntu.com>  Mon, 01 Aug 2016 07:48:43 -0600"

Later, Seeker

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