On 16-02-12 14:15 +0200, Dmitry Rozhkov wrote:
> man 5 os-release states that VERSION_ID is
> 
> "
> a lower-case string (mostly numeric, no spaces or other
> characters outside of 0-9, a-z, ".", "_" and "-")
> identifying the operating system version
> "
> 
> This becomes crucial when ClearLinux's software
> update mechanism is integrated into builds, because
> its client side ignores VERSION_ID's value if it
> doesn't conform the definition.

On Debian, the value is quoted:

VERSION_ID="8"

So I think the documentation refers to the value of VERSION_ID,
with the surrounding quotes not being part of the *value*.

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olofjn
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