On 05/08/24 09:38, Helmut Grohne wrote:
| The Technical Committee restricts itself to choosing from or adopting
compromises between solutions and decisions which have been proposed and
reasonably thoroughly discussed elsewhere.
The path forward is then, to freeze this discussion and «reasonably
thoroughly discuss» a couple of alternative proposal off-bug. Where?
The discussion in this bug report got to its current size also because
multiple issues are being discussed the same time:
a) whether to distinguish between testing/unstable,
b) how that distinction should be encoded in os-release,
c) how to package os-release,
d) whether to include version numbers, etc.
A discussion that assumes a) and focuses on creating a couple of PoCs to
test the technical aspects b) and c) will surely be more conductive to
concrete results.
Beyond all of this, more recent posts to this thread have made it more
clear to me that the state of /etc/os-release maybe should not only
depend on the suite you pass to debootstrap, but represent an
administrative choice (with a useful default).
/usr/lib/os-release represents what the distro thinks of itself.
/etc/os-release represents the administrative choices of the local sysadmin.
Regards,
--
Gioele Barabucci
