On 18/06/23 12:58, Harshula wrote:
Perhaps the best option is to refer this to the Technical Committee to
see if there's a way we can move forward?
Hi Harshula,
there are three open questions here:
1) should Debian provide a way to distinguish between the two
similar-but-not-identical, rolling, ephemeral releases called "testing"
and "staging" via /etc/os-release, the current cross-distro facility for
this purpose? (I believe it should)
and
2) is it acceptable to ask 3rd party software (e.g., ansible [1]) to
deal with the fact that Debian is the only major distro that does not
provide a cross-distro way to tell apart its two development releases?
(I believe it is not reasonable)
and
3) should the Debian packaging of lsb-release-minimal include an ad-hoc
patch that extends it to use heuristics to guess a piece of info what
Debian explicitly does not want to provide? (I believe it should not)
I doubt that these issues are important enough to be worth the attention
of the Technical Committee, in particular issue 3 (Debian stopped
supporting LSB in 2015, there are way better cross-distro facilities).
But if in your opinion these issues are important and you are willing to
coordinate (off-BTS) the writing of a summary of this issue to refer to
tech-ctte, I'll be happy to provide you with all the context and
information I have.
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/931197#37
Regards,
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Gioele Barabucci
