[Bug 947236] Re: Please provide /etc/os-release

[ruario]

> We'll basically get this for free the next time we merge base-files
from Debian.

You will get the file for free but it will still need adjusting to have
Ubuntu specific information.

As a side note, in addition to the distros I listed earlier I noticed that Gentoo also added this 3 months back:
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/baselayout/trunk/etc.Linux/os-release?view=log&pathrev=3203

Also Slackware have just added this to their development version, so the next Slackware version (14. 0, which is currently at RC3), will include it as well:
http://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/source/a/aaa_base/os-release

Quantal will be the odd one out, since most of the well known distros
already have this.

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Title:
  Please provide /etc/os-release

Status in “base-files” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “base-files” source package in Quantal:
  Won't Fix
Status in “base-files” package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  /etc/os-release is a new upcoming attempt of a standard which is meant
  to supersede /etc/debian_version, and their counterparts in
  Fedora/SUSE: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-
  release.html

  /etc/lsb_release is similar to this, but not standardized. The
  standard interface right now is to call lsb_release which is a Python
  script and thus a very high overhead compared to merely reading a
  file.

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