On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 05:45:41AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Package: base-files > Version: 7.3 > Severity: normal > > From the changelog of systemd 215: > > * The /etc/os-release file should now be placed in > /usr/lib/os-release. The old location is automatically > created as symlink. /usr/lib is the more appropriate > location of this file, since it shall actually describe the > vendor operating system shipped in /usr, and not the > configuration stored in /etc.
Fine, but the current /etc/os-release is a conffile in the dpkg sense which is updated when the system is updated. Making base-files to update the file at /usr/lib would be quite tricky (and in fact, I think it would violate policy). This means that either base-files updates the file and most probably violates policy, or the file is not updated on upgrades, people would be pissed about this, and they would report this as a bug. Nobody thought about that before deciding to move the file? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
