On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 13:19:00 +0200 Santiago Vila <[email protected]> wrote: > severity 931197 normal > thanks > > I consider this to be a normal bug, and will try to discuss with Release Managers > to see if we can change it for trixie.
As the maintainer of the os-release spec: Ansgar is right, the current setup is correct. Please do not add minor versions or patch versions to VERSION_ID. That field is supposed to identify whether you are on Bookworm or Bullseye or Trixie, not the minor patch levels in between. It would be a bug to change this, and it would break A LOT of parsers that expect just the Debian version. What you can do, is add another field. The spec is intentionally extensible and downstream can add any fields they like, just add a new one prefixed with DEBIAN_ to namespace it, and then you can add whatever you want in it. It could be DEBIAN_VERSION_FULL_ID=12.1 or DEBIAN_VERSION_MINOR_ID=1 or any other combination. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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