Re: base-files changed /etc/debian_version in stable

2009-04-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 14 avril 2009 à 22:45 +0200, Santiago Vila a écrit : > In either case, the genie is now out of the bottle. > > The file /etc/debian_version for lenny will contain, from now on, > a string of the form 5.0.n where n is an integer number. > > If this causes breakage, let us fix such breakag

Re: base-files changed /etc/debian_version in stable

2009-04-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 14 avril 2009 à 22:52 +0200, Luk Claes a écrit : > > There were warnings since December 2007 [1], though you're right that a > > reminder would not have been bad. > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/12/msg00742.html My bad then, I should have noticed that at the time it was r

Re: base-files changed /etc/debian_version in stable

2009-04-14 Thread Luk Claes
Luk Claes wrote: > Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Hi, > > Hi Josselin > >> the point release of lenny contains a change to /etc/debian_version. >> This was done without any kind of warning, despite the fact that some >> packages rely on the contents of this file. > > There were warnings since Decemb

Re: base-files changed /etc/debian_version in stable

2009-04-14 Thread Luk Claes
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Hi, Hi Josselin > the point release of lenny contains a change to /etc/debian_version. > This was done without any kind of warning, despite the fact that some > packages rely on the contents of this file. There were warnings since December 2007 [1], though you're right

Re: base-files changed /etc/debian_version in stable

2009-04-14 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Hi, > > the point release of lenny contains a change to /etc/debian_version. > This was done without any kind of warning, despite the fact that some > packages rely on the contents of this file. This change was also a surprise to me. I knew that the

base-files changed /etc/debian_version in stable

2009-04-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, the point release of lenny contains a change to /etc/debian_version. This was done without any kind of warning, despite the fact that some packages rely on the contents of this file. Thanks for wasting people’s time. -- .''`. Debian 5.0 "Lenny" has been released! : :' : `. `' Last n