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Re: debian version ID

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On 8/9/2016 4:34 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 09/08/2016 à 10:44, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard a écrit :
>> Andrew M.A. Cater:
>>> /etc/os-release just contains major version
>>
>> You are going to have to explain that to its manual page, which gives
>> VERSION_ID=11.04 as an example of what can be in the file.
>
> This is obviously not a Debian version. Rather looks like Ubuntu.
>
>> You're going to have to explain it to the Ubuntu people, as well;
>> because they follow what the manual says.
>
> Ubuntu 11.04 is a version based on year+month of release rather than a 
> major+minor version. Ubuntu 11.04 is as different from 11.10 as 11.10 
> is different from 12.04.
>
That was my first thought too, but looking up base-files for one of the 
LTS releases on packages.ubuntu.com and reading
the change log, looks like to do update the os-release with xx.xx.1, 
xx.xx.2, etc...

Later, Seeker

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