Package: base-files Version: 6.11 Severity: wishlist /etc/os-release can now provide everything that /etc/dpkg/origins/default does and thus I would like to deprecate /etc/dpkg/origins/* (I filed #681474 against libdpkg-perl to track this).
However /etc/dpkg/origins/* has the benefit of keeping the information of the parent distributions which /etc/os-release alone can't do. After discussion with the systemd upstream maintainers, we came to the conclusion that the best approach would be to store those files in /etc/os-release.d/ and /etc/os-release itself could be a symlink to the right file in /etc/os-release.d/ (hence /etc/os-release.d/debian) for Debian. The upstream documentation of /etc/os-release explicitly allows /etc/os-release to be a symlink, see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html Thus I would like base-files: - to ship /etc/os-release.d/debian - to ship /etc/os-release as a symlink to the former - to make it easy to add supplementary files in /etc/os-release.d/ and to update the symlink (i.e. reuse the VENDORFILE variable that you already have) for derivatives Cheers, -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: amd64 Kernel: Linux 3.4-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages base-files depends on: ii gawk [awk] 1:4.0.1+dfsg-2 ii mawk [awk] 1.3.3-17 base-files recommends no packages. base-files suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
