Bug#675731: base-files: Please add VERSION entry to /etc/os-release for unstable/testing too

2012-11-02 Thread Luca Capello
user eve...@debian.org usertags 675731 + events-hardware thanks Hi there! I discovered this bug while working on a script to automatize the installation of the d-i BabelBox for the Debian Events Box: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Events/DebianEventsBox. On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:38:44 +0200,

Bug#675731: base-files: Please add VERSION entry to /etc/os-release for unstable/testing too

2012-11-02 Thread Santiago Vila
El 02/11/12 22:15, Luca Capello escribió: If I read the os-release manpage correctly, Jeremy is right and VERSION is the place where 'wheezy' should be: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html The same manpage says this: Note that operating system vendors may

Bug#675731: base-files: Please add VERSION entry to /etc/os-release for unstable/testing too

2012-11-02 Thread Santiago Vila
El 02/11/12 22:15, Luca Capello escribió: * squeeze NAME=Debian GNU/Linux VERSION=6.0.6 (squeeze) VERSION_ID=6.0.6 PRETTY_NAME=$NAME $VERSION Well, since it's about time, I would be happy to upload now the base-files version saying 7.0. Then people who write scripts that assume

Bug#675731: base-files: Please add VERSION entry to /etc/os-release for unstable/testing too

2012-07-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 03 Jun 2012, Santiago Vila wrote: If you want wheezy, why can't you do this if VERSION is empty? echo $PRETTY_NAME | awk '{ print $3 }' | sed -e 's#/.*##' To avoid such hackery, you could export a DEBIAN_CODENAME variable. /etc/os-release allows for vendor-specific fields. Cheers, --

Bug#675731: base-files: Please add VERSION entry to /etc/os-release for unstable/testing too

2012-06-03 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 2 Jun 2012, Jeremy Bicha wrote: Package: base-files Version: 6.8 Severity: wishlist As requested in http://bugs.debian.org/659853 Debian now includes /etc/os-release. Therefore, I'd like to drop the lsb-release dependency from epiphany-browser. We use three pieces of info for the

Bug#675731: base-files: Please add VERSION entry to /etc/os-release for unstable/testing too

2012-06-02 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Package: base-files Version: 6.8 Severity: wishlist As requested in http://bugs.debian.org/659853 Debian now includes /etc/os-release. Therefore, I'd like to drop the lsb-release dependency from epiphany-browser. We use three pieces of info for the OS-specific part of the useragent: the distro