Package: base-files Version: 9.9+deb9u9 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
I am an Ansible Core maintainer and I would like to request that the minor verison information, e.g., 9.9, be included in /etc/os-release on Debian. > What led up to the situaiton? In Ansible, We recently switched to using the distro Python library for parsing distribution version information. distro uses /etc/os-release as the main source of truth for information about a given distribution. Previously, we were using platform.dist(), but this is now deprecated. With platform.dist(), we receieved the minor version information and our users found this information helpful. With the switch to distro, the minor version of Debian is no longer returned by default. I have a workaround[1] to get minor version information using distro, but would prefer to have the minor version added to /etc/os-release in Debian if the maintainers of Debian feel the minor version number is valid and/or supported. We asked the CentOS maintainers[2] and they do not support point versions, so CentOS, omitting the minor version inforamition from /etc/os-release is appropirate. I wanted to make the same request of the Debian maintainers. Thank you very much for your time. --- Respectfully, Sam Doran Ansible Core [1]: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/57814 [2]: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/50141#issuecomment-449452781 -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.9 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.125-linuxkit (SMP w/6 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages base-files depends on: ii mawk [awk] 1.3.3-17+b3 base-files recommends no packages. base-files suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
