On 11/21/18 9:12 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: > Package: lsb-release > Version: 9.20170808 > Severity: wishlist > > Debian's Python implementation of the LSB-standardized lsb_release > command parses various sources of data, including the non-standardized > configuration file /etc/lsb-release. That file doesn't exist in Debian, > but is typically shipped in base-files by derivatives. It is not "API" > itself, although packages designed for Ubuntu sometimes treat it as > though it was. > > systemd defines a new "API", which has been adopted in Debian even > for non-systemd systems: the /usr/lib/os-release file (formerly > /etc/os-release, which is now a symlink). This "API" is defined in terms > of parsing a text file, not running a Python program, so it's much faster > to use. > > If lsb_release looked at /usr/lib/os-release, then derivatives could edit > that file and /etc/dpkg/origins/default (which they need to do anyway) > and wouldn't usually need to add /etc/lsb-release. /usr/lib/os-release > uses the same subset of shell syntax as /etc/lsb-release.
confirming from the LSB viewpoint: lsb_release should look at whatever it needs to to make its determinations, and nothing the other side of lsb_release is in the LSB specification.
