On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 10:09:29AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 04 Jul 2018 at 09:55:54 (+0900), John Crawley wrote: > > Sorry, but I thought a "configuration file" was supposed to > > influence the behaviour of _software_ in some way. Are files which > > only provide info for humans also considered configuration files? > > Self-evidently, unless you can determine which software is being > influenced by /etc/{debian_version,issue,issue.net}.
It's a safe bet that there are third-party shell scripts out there which read /etc/debian_version to make decisions about what commands to use. I can't point to one at the moment, but there's gotta be a few out there somewhere.