On 2018-07-05, Richard Hector <rich...@walnut.gen.nz> wrote: > > Equally, if I want to know what the time is, I can ask you. > If you don't know, I can tell you. > Then I can ask you, and now you'll know, and I'll find out. > > Right? > > We must be looking at different problems. > > I'm assuming that if you're trying to look up the version number, it's > because you don't know what it is.
The problem I'm looking at is that the Debian testing/unstable releases do not have a version number and are not going to be receiving one any time soon (the tradition of not according a number to these two releases being of the utmost venerability). This is I gleaned from the bug report to which DW pointed. As mentioned in the latter the canny and agile system administrator running testing, for instance, can palliate the absence of a number by sticking one of his or her liking (10!) in or up any configuration wazoo he or she finds copacetic, and most notably in our current context '/etc/debian_version'. > Richard > >