Package: base-files Version: 6.8 Severity: wishlist As requested in http://bugs.debian.org/659853 Debian now includes /etc/os-release. Therefore, I'd like to drop the lsb-release dependency from epiphany-browser. We use three pieces of info for the OS-specific part of the useragent: the distro name, the distro version, and the package version. Those three pieces (and some punctuation) currently result in "Debian/unstable (3.4.2-1)" or "Ubuntu/12.10 (3.5.1-0ubuntu1)".
I'd like to use the ID and VERSION fields of /etc/os-release to fill in these fields, but Debian's implementation does not include a VERSION entry except for stable releases. I'd like to propose setting both VERSION and VERSION_ID to "wheezy". This can be distinguished from the released form because it doesn't include the version number (i.e 7.0). I believe the useragent generated would then be "debian/wheezy (3.4.2-2)". (I don't want to use the NAME field as the extra slash in GNU/Linux might not play well with useragent parsers...) Also, you should probably include HOME_URL and BUG_REPORT_URL values. Thanks, Jeremy -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers quantal-updates APT policy: (500, 'quantal-updates'), (500, 'quantal-security'), (500, 'quantal'), (100, 'quantal-backports') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.4.0-3-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Versions of packages base-files depends on: ii gawk [awk] 1:4.0.1+dfsg-2 ii mawk [awk] 1.3.3-17 base-files recommends no packages. base-files suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
