Hi Santiago, On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 08:28:39PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > The question: I've heard somewhere that the stable release team had > the intention of having /etc/issue showing not only the version number > but also the exact point release which is installed, during lenny > future lifetime as stable. > > I assume this will be implemented by uploading .lenny.x-suffixed > versions of base-files to stable-proposed-updates several days before > each point release happens. Only /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net would > be changed in these base-files stable updates. > > Therefore it seems the logical thing to do is for lenny release 0 > to have an /etc/issue (and issue.net) which reads "5.0r0" > > Please confirm that this is correct.
I don't think so. Changing /etc/issue{,.net} with every point release will
be a major annoyance for every person who customizes those files. I think
that if we want a programmatical way to access this information, this should
be solved by a separate package with a file not in /etc, probably with
LSB compliance in mind.
Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
--
.''`. Philipp Kern Debian Developer
: :' : http://philkern.de Release Assistant
`. `' xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Stable Release Manager
`- finger pkern/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
