Package: base-files Version: 10 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, please provide numeric version data for current Debian testing. I.e. "10" (maybe without minor component). This would simplify OS identification, for example, for ansible, where variables 'ansible_distribution_version' and 'ansible_distribution_major_version' are usually expected to be numeric, but in current testing are reported as 'buster/sid' due to what python's 'platform.linux_distribution()' is reporting.
The following is most probably beyond the scope of this report, but was it ever considered to reserve X.0 version numbers for testing phase and >=X.1 for the actual release? -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=ru_RU:ru (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages base-files depends on: ii gawk [awk] 1:4.1.4+dfsg-1 ii mawk [awk] 1.3.3-17+b3 base-files recommends no packages. base-files suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
