Hello Martin, On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 04:12:19PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > With the release of Lenny /etc/debian_version will be touched with every > point release, to reflect the current revision number of the debian > release (read as in): > > now: then: > 4.1 4.1r0 > > That should be documented in the release-notes, as it might brake > external software.
Could you review this patch for the release notes. I plan to document this in the section "2.2. System improvements" http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#system-changes Also, I'm not sure about the above versions. I used 5.0 and 5.0.1 in the patch. Thanks in advance, -- Nekral
Index: en/whats-new.dbk =================================================================== --- en/whats-new.dbk (révision 6882) +++ en/whats-new.dbk (copie de travail) @@ -492,6 +500,18 @@ applications that still have difficulties in handling UTF-8. </para> </listitem> +<listitem> + <indexterm><primary>Identification of the release's revision</primary></indexterm> + <para> + Starting from &releasename;, <filename>/etc/debian_version</filename> + will indicate the revision number of the debian release (5.0, then + 5.0.1, etc.) + </para> + <para> + This also means that you should not expect this file to be constant + throught the release lifetime. + </para> +</listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> <para>
