Raphael Hertzog wrote: > In both cases the purpose of the file is to provide identification > information about the OS.
Identification for what purpose? So I know which programmer to complain to when running into compatibility bugs, like the HTTP User-Agent field? For display and theming? To distinguish between package managers? To help automatic bug reporting tools? To make sure my programs present subtly different bugs on each system, like the ACPI _OSI method? os-release is a very nice way to make sure vendor scripts that want to rely on details about an OS (or even to just collect statistics) do not need to separately check for /etc/debian_version, /etc/redhat_release, etc, but I don't see what it has to do with dpkg. Of course a patch with a nice description of an associated use case could easily convince me otherwise. Thanks, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
