Re: Debian testing - release number
On 2018-07-10, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
You following up to Woolege:
Hmm, I struggle to see the connection between what I asked for and
what you wrote. From your later post, I guess the answer is that
editing /etc/debian_version risks provoking expletives from other
users of the system.
That said, I do agree with what you wrote.
So there was an equivocal quality there, Dave, as to which of Woolege's
articles "what you wrote" was referring (the one you were following up
to above, or the "fucking" one below to which you alluded--so I *asked*,
indicated by my question mark, which my tone may have rendered somehow
accusatory). I do admit that I believed the latter interpretation
without even considering the real possibility that it was indeed the
former, probably because of a minor incident in the Latex/PDF thread we were
both involved in a few moons ago, a can of beans not worth opening.
The Woolege post:
It is not a fucking configuration file that you edit.
It is supposed to be read only.
Only a crazy idiot would manually edit the file that tells you what
version of the OS you're running.
It would be like editing registry entries in Microsoft Windows to make
it look like you're running a different version of Windows.
Anyway, have a nice day.
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