Package: base-files Version: 12.2 Severity: wishlist Hi,
/etc/os-release in testing and unstable does not set VERSION, VERSION_ID and VERSION_CODENAME, which causes, for example, ansible to just emit "NA" as distribution version, which forces me to special-case testing and unstable. I see possible issues with testing migration of base-files, ruling out having different values for sid and testing until shortly before the relase of a new stable version, but would it be possible to set one of those values (maybe at least VERSION_CODENAME to "testing/unstable" or "bookworm/sid") so that the special-casing of the version number is not necessary any more? I bet that most installations having a configuration management system have a small number of testing/unstable boxes in their fleet to anticipate for possibly necessary changes, and having to special-case the development versions kind of contradicts this intention. Thanks for considering. Greetings Marc
