On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Quoting Roman Lebedev (2025-12-10 00:36:05) > > There's https://packages.debian.org/sid/libdistro-info-perl > > Should it be used to detect which distro it is? > > how would it be able to do that? All we have at that point is the user > arguments.
Looking at /usr/share/perl5/Debian/DistroInfo.pm, i think you'd want to call `UbuntuDistroInfo::new()->valid(codename)`. > And another question that I forgot to ask: is the ubuntu kernel named the same > independent of the architecture? > > Quoting Christian Kastner (2025-12-10 00:37:50) > > A cursory examination of the URIs all have "ubuntu" somewhere in their > > name, so the check would return true > > Not true. There is https://mirror.famaserver.com/archive/ or > https://mirror.maeen.sa/apt-mirror/ There are also "mis-spelling" of ubuntu > like rsync://mirror.flokinet.net/ubntu/ and there are spellings with the first > letter upper-case http://mirrors.arpnetworks.com/Ubuntu/ > > > Though not impossible, I think it very unlikely that there will be many > > false > > positives, ie: a non-Ubuntu URI would containing "ubuntu". > > The test has both false positives and false negatives. It's a bad test. It is > maybe a good heuristic but if one adds a heuristic to software, then one must > also add a way to override it. > There is also another option: convince Debian kernel maintainers to add > linux-image-virtual to their list of meta-packages and let it depend on the > right meta-package depending on the architecture. Then both > autopkgtest-virt-qemu as well as mmdebstrap-autopkgtest-build-qemu could > simplify their code and just depend on linux-image-virtual. Yes, please! I've filed such an issue before: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1116120 > Thanks! > > cheers, josch Roman.
