Bug#746548: closed by Santiago Vila sanv...@unex.es (Re: Bug#746548: base-files: os-release has no VERSION and VERSION_ID fields)

2014-05-05 Thread Sylvain Joyeux
My use case is a provisioner, in which arbitrary names (e.g. avahi) is mapped to the OS proper package name (e.g.avahi-daemon). Since the name depends on the OS version, I do need to know. Which I currently do with a mix of lsb_release (damn slow on Debian) and OS-specific heuristics. That is

Bug#746548: closed by Santiago Vila sanv...@unex.es (Re: Bug#746548: base-files: os-release has no VERSION and VERSION_ID fields)

2014-05-05 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 02:37:21PM +0200, Sylvain Joyeux wrote: My use case is a provisioner, in which arbitrary names (e.g. avahi) is mapped to the OS proper package name (e.g.avahi-daemon). Since the name depends on the OS version, I do need to know. Which I currently do with a mix of

Bug#746548: base-files: os-release has no VERSION and VERSION_ID fields

2014-05-01 Thread Sylvain Joyeux
Package: base-files Version: 7.2 Severity: wishlist -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux