On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 11:46:32AM -0400, Damon Thomas wrote: > Package: base-files > Version: 10.3+deb10u1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > I seem to be current on all updates but noticed my version to be listed > as Debian 10 instead of 10.1 by lsb_release -r and neofetch. As I > checked /etc/issue and /etc/os-release both list my version as "10." > > Is this a small issue or have I done something odd accidentally?
Your system is ok. You are running Debian 10.1. Your own bug report says so: > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 10.1 This is read by reportbug from /etc/debian_version, which is the authoritative source for the point release. It is documented (in base-files changelog) that os-release does not change at every point release, but for some strange reason lsb_release has stopped looking at /etc/debian_version and now it looks at /etc/os-release instead. So, I consider this to be a bug in lsb-release. More info here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=939733 We may or may not fix this issue by updating os-release at every point release starting from some future 10.x point release, but in principle I don't like the idea of promising a static /etc/os-release and then failing to honor such promise when we have already released Debian 10 as stable. The idea was to consider that for bullseye: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=931197 Anyway, I'm going to keep this open for now, at least until we decide how to fix this issue. Thanks.
