Package: base-files Version: 13 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** Version 13 of base-files removed VERSION_ID from /etc/os-release. As reported in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1008735 the absence of this field breaks screen sharing with Zoom. It uses that field to test if minimum system requirements have been met. Related information: https://www.guyrutenberg.com/2020/06/22/fixing-zoom-screen-sharing-on-debian- unstable/ https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1008735 I will repeat what I reported previously, but that was when Debian testing was a lead-up to version 12. This is arguably a bug in zoom (checking the contents of /etc/os-release != checking for screen share success), but getting them to fix it appears to be impossible (lord knows I've tried), and, on the other hand, it also seems there must be something sensible that can be put into /etc/os-release to make it work. Is it really true that no version information whatsoever is the only acceptable solution on Debian's end? Is there a middle ground on this? At least on testing, with the current version of base-files, only the VERSION_ID variable needs to be added to /etc/os-release to fix zoom (not the other stuff shown on that web page). I don't know about unstable, but it's probably the same story. Some example VERSION_ID values I've confirmed fix zoom on testing: "12", " 12", "12 ", "11.999", "9999", "12.pre", "12.testing", "12.2022-11-30". Some that I've confirmed do not fix it: "11+", "12-", "testing", "12 testing", "inf", "-1". It's hard to say what, exactly, it's looking for, but it seems like "integer[.arbitrary text]" is acceptable to it, although it has some additional flexibility. The leading integer part must >= 9 to allow screen sharing. *** End of the template - remove these template lines *** -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers testing-security APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages base-files depends on: ii gawk [awk] 1:5.2.1-2 ii mawk [awk] 1.3.4.20230525-1 base-files recommends no packages. base-files suggests no packages. -- debconf-show failed
