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Re: Where'd lsb-compat go?



On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 03:09:28PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> Well, in this particular case, the Quest SMA is a Systems Management
> Appliance, which provides management and data-collection capabilities of
> devices on a network. When a sysadmin wants to use the SMA to find out about
> PCs on the network, particularly Linux PCs, particularly Debian PCs,
> particularly Debian PCs of a certain version, that SMA itself must first
> know that information. That's part of what the SMA does; it goes and and
> collects information about the devices.

And yet it can't even figure out how to see the version number of a
Debian GNU/Linux system.  Are you sure you want to continue using this
product?  It doesn't sound very capable.


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