On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 07:10:08PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 01:17:20PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > I received this bug from one of the ansible upstream authors: > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=931197 > > > > asking to include information about minor version somewhere in > > /etc/os-release. > > > What I'm missing from that bug is the actual use case. The minor > version seems to me to be pretty meaningless. What problem does > including it actually fix?
I would call it marginally useful, but not meaningless. If it was really meaningless, we would not be providing such info in /etc/debian_version to begin with. In this case we would be allowing ansible maintainers for a cleaner implementation of something which they have already decided to implement because some users consider it useful. As far as we don't break any standard, does a feature need to be useful for everybody to be implemented, or does it suffice that some people consider it useful? (for whatever reason). Should I ask your question to Sam Doran in the referenced bug? In my opinion, /etc/debian_version is deprecated in favour of /etc/os-release. Not losing information (no matter how useful such information might be) in the switch seems a reasonable goal to me. Thanks.