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Felix Miata:

> Will someone please explain (or point to, since it's not in release 
> notes), why:
> 1: /etc/os-release (in Jessie at least) does not include the point 
> release version as represented by /etc/debian_version

Andrew M.A. Cater:

> /etc/os-release just contains major version - the absolute need for 
> minor version is small.

Jonathan de Boyne Pollard:

> 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.

Pascal Hambourg:

> This is obviously not a Debian version. Rather looks like Ubuntu.

That is irrelevant.  M. Miata asked for a reason.  M. Cater responded.  
Either M. Cater is responding to explain why or xe is not explainining 
but merely repeating what M. Miata already knows and wants to know the 
reason for.  As an explanation why, it is clearly wrong, from simply 
reading the user manual.  What the version number in the manual might be 
is simply irrelevant.

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  Re: debian version ID Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-08-01 09:30 +0200
    Re: debian version ID Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-08-01 11:00 +0200
      Re: debian version ID Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-08-01 12:00 +0200
  Re: debian version ID "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk> - 2016-08-01 09:40 +0200
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      Re: debian version ID Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-08-09 13:40 +0200
        Re: debian version ID Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> - 2016-08-09 22:40 +0200
          Re: debian version ID David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-08-10 02:00 +0200
            Re: debian version ID Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-08-10 14:40 +0200
              Re: debian version ID David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-08-11 17:10 +0200
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          Re: debian version ID "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk> - 2016-08-29 20:30 +0200
            Re: debian version ID "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk> - 2016-08-29 21:50 +0200
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